How to Use beckon in a Sentence

beckon

verb

• From the time he was a child, the wilderness beckoned to him.
• She beckoned to the waiter to come over.
• She beckoned the waiter to come over.
• She was beckoning them in to shore.
• The nature preserve beckons bird-watchers, who visit from around the world.
• Axe takes his shirt off as three naked women beckon him from a hot tub.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 May 2018
• The felines sat on one side, and their owners beckoned them with toys or treats on the other.
  — Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 17 Sep. 2024
• As the twang of the banjo beckoned, images of the 46 horses who died that day would momentarily fade.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2018
• What first struck me, nearly literally, was the large basket of yellow bags with a sign beckoning visitors to take one.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
• Comfy couches beckon folks to lounge, play Cards Against Humanity or get lost in their laptops and smartphones.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• But just when Agatha beckoned Teen to continue following her down the Road, something very different happened.
  — Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024
• Somehow beckoned by the void, billions of outward-rushing galaxies also feel the collective gravitational pull of everything in the rearview mirror trying to tug them back.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 May 2018
• Most post their work on the web and beckon to the masses.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• In full view is the restaurant to the left, beckoning you to come in for a bite.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
• Karim walked over to the fence and beckoned his brother in the middle of a game.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Del Rey is here to beckon the gaze and take a nap, per usual.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019
• Aries March 21-April 19 The world is beckoning you to come and see what's out there.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2023
• Snowflakes, lanterns and scrollwork based on the iron gates beckon you across.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2020
• In the dimly lit room, flashing lights beckon the next dancer to take her turn on the pole.
  — Anjeanette Damon, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2019
• In normal times, cities beckon us to engage, to crowd, to be part of the thrum.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2020
• The penthouse suite flaunts a rooftop terrace that beckons guests to hang out for a while and soak up the sun.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2023
• One of the works from Tyler Hays’s Bather series beckons from the living room in the distance.
  — Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2024
• The benches out front, where old men would sit and gossip, beckon you to rest.
  — Brinley Hineman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
• This piece beckoned to us with its full-length fuzz, made from polyester fleece and packed with pockets.
  — Maren Larsen, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2020
• The days are getting longer and the great outdoors is beckoning.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Contrast that with the ocean-blue sea that beckons through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2023
• With four Voice judges beckoning her, begging for her, the choice was all Forde’s to make.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
• Advertisement One child closest to the edge of the gates beckoned to me.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• While the officer swabbed my palms for explosives, Yaffa finally spotted me and tried to beckon me over.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2024
• In each of the paintings, thanks to this, there is a section that beckons our eyes into a domain of the nameless, of forms that are still coming into being or, perhaps, disappearing.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024