In the springtime, trees start to greet one another again with "Hello there, how do you do?," instead of their usual cold, dead silence.
Residents in my building were starting to greet Mac by name, offer him a hand to sniff and ask me about walking techniques or whether they could walk their rabbit.
The guides started grunting to greet the gorillas, deep into morning feeding time.
The theory is starting to be greeted with just a smidgen less skepticism these days.
Last October, the news that Delta would close Song, the low-price airline it started to compete with JetBlue, was greeted with relief at JetBlue headquarters.
A couple of years ago, I started to notice a strange inflation in the way we all greet each other.
Activists in the large Yemeni community in New York, where Mr. Saleh was to head for treatment, quickly started planning protests to greet him.
Ms. Spencer-Wendel thought she had prepared herself fully — that she would burst off the starting block like a sprinter to greet her fate.
Ms. Brown tried to walk forward to greet him, but she started tottering.
We started in Boston and Teddy was there to greet us at the airport.
