in greeting

phrase

: as a way to greet someone

He held out his hand in greeting.

Examples of in greeting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There, friends and family members sang together in Spanish and English, embracing each other in greeting, checking in about their children or their health and sharing their mix of hope and trepidation with one another. — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 July 2026

Last year, the two made enough from TikTok and YouTube to purchase a house together in a tidy, cookie-cutter subdivision in Jacksonville, near the end of a cul-de-sac where small children ride bikes and neighbors wave in greeting and holiday inflatables sway in orderly front yards. — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026

My husband doesn’t kiss his wife in greeting. — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026

In one frame, Tarek appears to hold his fist up in greeting to someone out of frame, while Christina bends over in a gesture that could be a curtsy, with a big grin on her face. — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for in greeting

• accreting
• competing
• completing
• concreting
• defeating
• deleting
• depleting
• entreating
• preheating
• reheating
• repeating
• retreating