Sentence examples for workers wave from inspiring English sources

Workers wave acetylene torches with one hand and smoke cigarettes with the other.

Surveyors in bright orange and yellow caps stand with their instruments on hillsides, and road workers wave red flags to slow the traffic along the road's smoother sections.

And at Delta Dental Plan, a Michigan insurer, workers wave little white flags during frustrating sales calls, a signal to co-workers to be nice to (or steer clear of) them.

If Zaha Hadid thinks it's not her duty to look at human rights issues and the deaths of building workers (Wave of protest, 1 July), she has not read the architects' code of conduct very carefully.

Passenger traffic is rare on the CPR these days, so rare that farmers and even trackmaintenance workers wave and cheer like the Railway Children as we pass.

Workers wave enthusiastically when they spot a foreigner in the motorboat, until an angry man, presumably their boss, orders the men to get back to work.

At some precincts, election workers waved and flashed supposedly secret ballots on their way to the scanners.

A group of hospital workers waved a banner showing tombstones and the inscription "Cemetery of the heroic hospital workers who died in service".

The veteran "model workers" waving to the crowd, and the floats with engines and giant wheatsheafs could have come straight from the China of the fifties.

A crane was parked on a flatbed truck in front of the shop, and workers waved pedestrians to the other side of the street for all but one hour that Seven was open.

In the early morning, buses from across the country disgorged workers waving Cuban flags, sporting T-shirts bearing the image of Che Guevara and other icons, carrying placards and banners, and dancing to pounding, patriotic salsa rhythms.