Sentence examples for could have waved from inspiring English sources

"We could have waved a white flag," Klopp said, "but that's not possible".

"If we could have waved a magic wand and bear-proofed Tahoe years ago, you wouldn't see the number of bears getting into these conflict situations," he said.

Fernando Tatis might as well have been a character in a Bugs Bunny cartoon since he could have waved his bat once and then twice as he waited for the ball.

Had Mr. Thani been allowed to buy the two apartments, he could have waved to the emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who owns two mansions just across the street, at No. 7 and No. 9 East 72nd Street.

They could not have waved a redder flag in the face of some scholars.

Couldn't Ittich have waved his arms or sent a ball boy to convey the message?

In practice, this sounded pompously overlong (couldn't I have waved my card at the cashier?), but I was elated at being understood.

You saw it!"; when Jesse Johnson had taken off his shades and said, "That shit was funky!," grinning for the first time that I could remember; when D'Angelo had waved me off with a wary smile and the Roots had clambered into their van for the long drive back to Nashville, Questlove slumped in the front seat and turned on the stereo.

They could have just waved around their guns and taken what they wanted".

"They're trying to do this back-door route with diversity... to shut you up by shutting us down". Not to be outdone, Lou Dobbs stated falsely: "When you talk about diversity, [you aren't] talking about ethnic, racial or religious diversity, [you 're] talking about more liberals on the air". The cloud of media hysteria could have been waved off by more sensible voices on cable's evening news roster.

The Six Nations champions could have done without this development, having waved goodbye to their captain earlier in the day.