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• A masterplan beckons too for Inverness, in line with long-standing local wishes.2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 925, page 30. From the entry masterplan
• The aroma of baking pastry beckoned from the confectionery next door.2009, Elena Scialtiel, Amandine: Amour. Glamour. On Tour, pages 90, 433. From the entry bonnag
• Then a point of light beckoned me and I strove for it.2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry timescape
• At the foot of the hill, trancey music from a garage party beckoned.2005, Matt Rauscher, The Unborn Spouse Situation. From the entry trancey
• The crack and blast of a duel on the far side of the thorn ridge beckoned.2003, Thomas Goltz, Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving, →ISBN. From the entry onehandedness
• In Nakhodka, on the Pacific coast, a shopping center built to resemble the Great Wall beckons customers.2003 July 29, Peter Baker, “A Tense Divide in Russia’s Far East”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company…. From the entry Haishenwei
• I remember all the kids used to play a game called beckons wanted, right out there.1996, "Piper Maru" (episode of The X-Files TV series). From the entry beckons wanted
• The cliff beckoned, the button itched, it yearned to be pressed.1979 March 29, Ted Page, “Armidillo Bomb”, in Massachusetts Daily Collegian, volume CVIII, number [108], Amherst, Mass.: University of…. From the entry fingy
• Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry malar
• A large banner proclaiming "Gay American Revolution" beckoned other gay marchers to join the contingent.1973 December 22, “Boston Tea Party”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 1. From the entry warmth
• Men love the mysterious, that which they cannot probe, which ever eludes and beckons from beyond.1920, Samuel Alexander White, North of the Law, Doubleday, Page, page 126. From the entry unfathomability
• The familiar yellow awning of your favorite bodega beckons.2025 November 17, Anna Kodé, “New York’s Bodegas Are Here to Stay”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry bodega
• The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.2011 April 12, Beth Kendrick, chapter 29, in The Bake-Off, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN. From the entry apple pie
• English is little heard, and women wrapped in Technicolor fabrics plait microbraids into customers’ hair as their colleagues beckon passers-by.2009 September 20, Sarah Maslin Nir, “The Rebirth, and the Beat, Goes On”, in New York Times. From the entry microbraid
• Wordsworth, who occupies the hard-to-hold ground between the neoclassicism of Johnson and the ultraromanticism of Shelley, beckons with paternal authority.2007, Lee Oser, The Return of Christian Humanism, page 133. From the entry ultraromanticism
• You know how they say." He beckoned to the waiter.1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 155. From the entry propink
• The eyes of the hat-check girls glowed and beckoned.1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 54. From the entry swing door
• In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8. From the entry euphony
• But as the steady-eyed Canteen worker checked the time and briskly beckoned the next in line, he pressed no-nonsensely forward: "Two sausage rolls, please."2020, Steven Sater, Alice By Heart, page 261. From the entry no-nonsensely
• Immortality beckons if he does it.2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport. From the entry zero
• Ten thousand Big Apple activities beckon.2014 November, William Powers, “Rooftoop Bees and Beans”, in New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City, Novato, Calif.: New…. From the entry staycation
• The café beckons, or rather the smell of coffee does, but the fish and chippy perkiness of the place is too much.2010, Natasha Lester, What Is Left Over, After, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry fish and chippy
• Then you shall be weaponmasters and serve me doubly.” He turned and beckoned one of the swordsmen forward, a pale-haired man with deep-set green eyes.2009, Katharine Kerr, The Silver Mage (The Silver Wyrm; book four), DAW Books, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry weaponmaster
• Every morning she would beckon: “Come and lie with me, love.” Joseph wanted to resist her til one day she proved too eager.1974, “Potiphar”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. From the entry free love
• For he will not leave his listener to dwell upon sorrow when the print office beckons and he can show you what a good little devil he became.2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 381. From the entry devil
• My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat.1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 56. From the entry suicidally
• Flashy in its photographic juxtapositioning, Reebok embraced poor taste as a sign for antistyle that might beckon skeptical viewers to enter the space of the ad.1994, David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana, Postmodernism and social inquiry. From the entry antistyle
• But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip.1919, Cynthia Stockley, Blue Aloes. From the entry gladsomely
• Blue leagues beckoned him, the Humboldt Current helped him north along the western Patagonian shore, fair trade winds sped him westerly when he set his course for the Spice Islands.1976, Ernest Stanley Dodge, Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia, page 3. From the entry Spice Islands

Meaning of beckon

1. verb To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
2. verb To seem attractive and inviting.
3. noun A sign made without words; a beck.

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How do you use beckon in a sentence?

Beckon is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The election come and gone, work beyond political organizing beckoned.”

What is a short sentence with beckon?

“Immortality beckons if he does it.”

What does beckon mean?

Beckon means to wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.