Sentence examples for waggle from inspiring English sources

The word 'waggle' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the movement of an object or person, usually side-to-side or up-and-down. Example sentence: The excited puppy waggled its tail in greeting.

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waggle

verb

To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.

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You say this is an "annual" problem, which suggests you buy dresses every year which - oh ho! - suggests you have dresses already in your wardrobe, she says in a Belgian accent, with a waggle of her waxed moustache.

A few nights of resisting the urge to get up and drive, in my thermal pyjamas, to the top of a mountain and desperately waggle my phone around.

Other servers that read the advert act like worker bees following a waggle dance judging on the basis of the advert, and of their own recent experience, whether to switch from the customers they are currently serving to the new ones being served by the server that produced the advert.Honeybees and internet servers share similar problems right down to the finest level of detail.

If so, it signals to others to follow it back by doing the famous waggle dance.

Conversely, computerised bees that blindly followed the waggle dances of others without first checking whether the site was, in fact, as advertised, led to a swift but mistaken decision.

Among the bees that depart are scouts that search for the new nest site and report back using a waggle dance to advertise suitable locations.

Substitute nerve cells for bees and electric activity for waggle dances, and you have a good description of what happens when a stimulus produces a response in the brain.Proponents of so-called swarm cognition, like Dr Trianni, think the brain might work like a swarm of nerve cells, with no top-down co-ordination.

King William (Cliff Burnett) minces about in a wig in an entirely unsuitable way for this most stern and Protestant of monarchs; the members of Parliament have their noses in a trough and waggle their rumps.

When they discover a good location, they return to the nest and perform a waggle dance (similar to the one used to indicate patches of nectar-rich flowers) to recruit other scouts.

After a while, other scouts start to visit the sites advertised by their compatriots and, on their return, also perform more waggle dances.

Even complex cognitive functions, such as abstract reasoning and consciousness, they suggest, might simply emerge from local interactions of nerve cells doing their waggle dances.

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