beckon

IPA: bˈɛkʌn

A sign made without words; a beck.
A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.

(transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
(transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting

Examples of "beckon" in Sentences

Special rewards and titles beckon for victorious guilds.
The Tibetan scarves that dance and beckon from the tables of street vendors are orange.
But regardless of that fact, these are the PS3 exclusives whose siren calls beckon me to my doom:
The signs in English beckon upscale customers to collections of carpets, clothes and jewelry sold by candidates for the chamber of commerce.
These little companies sat upon the ground, not advancing towards us, but inviting us to them, by a kind of beckon, moving one hand towards the breast.
These beckon from the autumn window seat of our childhood, and outside a cheerful cataract and swift descending stream froths between large, round rocks calling.
We all know that one won't disappear into the frozen landscape of her faraway Arctic state — not when book deals, party leadership and media stardom beckon from the Lower 48.