Sentence examples for head to indicate from inspiring English sources

Ohno lifted his arms above his head to indicate he had been impeded, a gesture the Koreans believe influenced Hewish.

Hold your hand as high as you can above your head to indicate how much data our present system collects.

"He said he was 19, and they said 'Really?' " said Mayor Maley, shaking his head to indicate surprise.

When asked if he knew someone named Roscoe, Everett shook his head to indicate he did not, and then smiled.

While these were cooking, Paglen nudged me and raised his eyebrows behind his goggles, tilting his head to indicate a complicated-looking instrument on a shelf nearby.

Groping to speak, he points to his head to indicate where the words are -- words that resist all his efforts to force them out.

For example, if the first half of your paper on Albania was about socialist theory, you could use a section heading to indicate it.

This might allow birds to see patterns of spots that remain stationary as they turn their heads, to indicate magnetic direction.

It had always been easy to mock them as pompous, self-conscious actors who knew just how to tilt their heads to indicate concern, how to raise an eyebrow to convey empathy or surprise or doubt.

Ask a group of interns who've been on the wards for but a week, and they will quickly raise their hands up to the level of their heads to indicate their teachers' status and importance, then lower them toward their feet to demonstrate their own.

These edits included specific indications regarding where boxes should be moved, using solid vs. dotted lines to indicate the strength of a relationship, reversing arrow heads to indicate the principal driver of a relationship and ranking or weighting the relative importance of each position/organization to oncologists.