• I popped the three fruits on a wall and beckoned people over to identify which was which, with varying degrees of success.
• Romantic and sexy, Paris beckons people from all over the world to bask in its splendor.
• A person beckoning someone else extends an arm with the palm turned down and brings the fingers toward the wrist.

• A life in politics appeared to beckon, but all that changed as Verges watched France's brutal attempts to quell the Algerian uprising against its colonial master in the late 1950s.
• Too often they turned over ball, and too often they took wrong options when chances beckoned.
• The Statue of Liberty beckons ever more invitingly to the huddled masses of over-taxed, over-regulated British wealth creators.

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