Sentence examples for offered a greeting from inspiring English sources

On occasion some irate citizen would insult him in the street—"Balaguer, the paper doll!"—but most of the time people offered a greeting: "Good afternoon, Mr President".

At first it seemed that she was there because the performance was being presented live in cinemas worldwide, as she offered a greeting and made mention of Ms. Pagliero's last-minute achievement.

The Iranian delegation declined to attend U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's luncheon on Tuesday for the 193-nation annual gathering, offering no reason for skipping the venue where Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would likely have run into Obama and extended a hand or offered a greeting.

One figure offers a greeting: "Hi, there".

Later my wife offers a greeting in Xhosa to a woman as we approach a village where we are to spend the night and is rewarded with a laugh and a cheery reply in English: "You are very welcome.

He does not mind displaying an eccentric side: his answering machine offers a greeting from the apostle of network news extremism, Howard Beale, the unhinged anchorman of the film, "Network".

For example, someone extending a hand is likely trying to offer a greeting, but our brains will process other possibilities so quickly that we don't even register them.

I think that anyone with enough human feeling as to offer a greeting of the season, or any greeting, for that matter, deserves to have it accepted in the spirit in which it is given, with an open heart, without criticism or obsessively searching for hidden meanings.

Marines and Sailors do not salute uncovered, but you should still offer a greeting to show respect.

At the Morphicism gallery, the proprietor, Jay Palefsky, offered a cheerful greeting: "A customer!

Obama offered a warm greeting to McCain and his wife, Cindy, as he made his way to the dais.