Definition of "beckoned" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of beckon. (verb)

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• "With such a To-Be-Continued ending, it produces contradictory emotions - on one hand there was too little payoff after the slower prose associated with complex world building; on the other hand, A World Too Near beckoned from the shelf immediately."
• "But his calling beckoned when he saw an ad to “Fulfill your dreams—be a wrestler.”"
• "A woman standing at the foot of a gravel mountain beckoned with peevish urgency to her child."