Sentence examples for goodbye gesture from inspiring English sources

"It was not a goodbye gesture but a thank you," he said.

Later, it seems the rape did not happen; the boy kissed Ursula rather vigorously as a goodbye gesture.

When the others wave goodbye to Julian from across the studio he mimes some complicated goodbye gesture while making firearm noises.

Raúl has refused to take a seat on the team council in a move that has been interpreted as a goodbye gesture.

Heder's video ends with a classic Napoleon Dynamite butterfly lotus goodbye, a gesture Paris is particularly fond of.

When she finally gives up hope, Madame Li weakly gestures goodbye to the wooden stand which, up until then, had seemed to be a part of her body.

"With a light shift of her voice, she commands a rebellious child to kiss her goodbye; with an unobtrusive gesture, she flicks an ironing board from a sofa so that a lounging and slightly fatuous college boy can relax in a tenement," Kerr wrote.

But one of those goodbyes came with a gesture of immeasurable sweetness; my friends and I weren't much for material presents, but we were good with symbols, and my best friend took his leave of our house, on his last night in town, by slipping an envelope onto my bedroom desk unnoticed.

One last gesture, one last goodbye, one last promise made to that woman who was me so long ago.

But if I fail -- which, with many unavoidable life hazards, we often do: I raise my glass with one hand and gesture a wave goodbye with the other... perhaps with an extra digit, just to emphasize the point.

AS the motorcade carrying the body of Leonard Bernstein passed through Brooklyn on its way to Green-Wood Cemetery 20 years ago, construction workers removed their yellow hard hats and called out, "Goodbye, Lenny!" It was a gesture of affection unthinkable for any other classical musician.