Sentence examples for taken a wave from inspiring English sources

Often it was the guy who had just taken a wave who would do this, standing up on the sandbar as he walked back out to the breakers.

"It shouldn't have taken a wave of constructive criticism — but it has — to alert us that we've made a mistake, possibly several mistakes," The Atlantic said in a statement.

Writing in the Guardian at the end of 2012, he said: "The idea that it's taken a wave of sadsack dudes with pensive feelings and washed-out reverb to save a genre with such a rich and varied past and present is sadly inevitable.

It shouldn't have taken a wave of constructive criticism — but it has — to alert us that we've made a mistake, possibly several mistakes.

"It takes a wave to realize that the boat you have been riding is too small," he said.

Surprisingly, Martínez emerged from the dugout, a jacket on his arm, taking a wave, which no doubt thrilled the Astros.

Flopping to their bellies for greater speed, they could be kids taking a wave on a surfboard.

Persuaded to take a wave, McNamara, 44, found himself on a freak mountain of water 90ft (30m) high, surfing one of the biggest waves ever ridden, probably the largest in Europe and the biggest recorded on film.

On Wednesday, President Obama said in a news conference that he would make preventing gun violence a legislative priority, but that it would take "a wave of Americans" to move it forward.

When it's unclear who should enter a door first or what side of a path they should take, a wave of the hand is all it takes to clear things up.

No need to even take a wave.