nod

Example Sentences

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There are many places where “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,” from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, elicits a nod of recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

South Africa's away shirt gives a nod to the kits worn by Bafana Bafana in 2010, when they hosted the World Cup - becoming the first African nation to do so.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

It was a direct nod to Mamdani himself, whose mother, Mira Nair, is a Punjabi Hindu woman from India.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

On the walls, another nod to the idea of thinking: reproductions of works by Edvard Munch, the deeply intellectual painter.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Clare cleared his throat and gave a single nod.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman