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Idiom

wave goodbye

Meaning

To say goodbye by means of a handwave.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I wave goodbye to my neighbors every morning.”

“She stood on the platform and continued to wave goodbye until the train disappeared.”

“As the ship slowly pulled away from the harbor, the passengers gathered at the railing to wave goodbye to their families on the shore.”

Examples

simple

“I wave goodbye to my neighbors every morning.”

contextual

“She stood on the platform and continued to wave goodbye until the train disappeared.”

complex

“As the ship slowly pulled away from the harbor, the passengers gathered at the railing to wave goodbye to their families on the shore.”

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