Sentence examples for wagging from inspiring English sources
"wagging" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean "moving from side to side with quick, short movements", or as an adjective to mean "criticizing or expressing disapproval of someone." Example sentence: The dog's tail was wagging happily.
noun
The motion of something that is wagged.
- The waggings of a dog's tail
On the occasions we'd row, she'd paw at the aggressor, licking their face and wagging her tail until it was impossible to argue any more for giggling.
The sudden realisation that the Scottish nationalist tail could end up wagging the Westminster (Labour) dog is the major concern of most of today's London-based national newspapers.
It's not the most probing interrogation I've ever thrown at a celebrity but Iggy responds to my opening gambit by wagging her tail.
The final regulations are still to come.Republican governors who sat on their hands during the law's first years are now wagging their fingers at HHS for being slow.
House Republicans have been eager to comply with SNA's request for action presumably seeing an opportunity to bat away the wagging finger of the nanny state.
The speculative tail is wagging the spot dog.If that argument were true, the consequences would be profound.
AFTER the noon prayer in Cairo's Tahrir Square on September 14th, a copiously bearded speaker delivered a rousing, finger-wagging open-air sermon.
This became known as the X-Case and it resulted in the Republic being tried in the court of international public opinion and portrayed through the democratic world as an uncaring society more worried about finger-wagging, moralising bishops and cardinals than the child victims of sexual assault.
It could have been a pertinent point in a campaign much concerned with the merits of individual and collective action, but Mr Obama overdid the finger-wagging, marvelling at the successful people he met who think they are "just so smart".The moment suggested that the president is more statist than Middle America, and a bit priggish too.
Letting Israel know that the United States cannot any longer be certain to veto finger-wagging resolutions at the United Nations would be another.Drawing in HamasBut Mr Obama's hardest test of diplomacy will be drawing Hamas, directly or indirectly, into negotiations.
Flanked in the National Palace by leaders of Mexico's three main political parties, he resurrected an ambitious reform programme that a scandal in his Institutional Revolutionary Party PRII) had threatened to derail.Notwithstanding finger-wagging by opposition leaders, Mr Peña persuaded them to restart a tri-party political pact that is the crown jewel of his five-month-old administration.
