How to Use hand-waving in a Sentence

hand-waving

noun

• There was much innuendo and hand-waving for something that was supposed to change the textbooks.
  — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
• Although the film doles out answers, there is some economical hand-waving about why the neighborhood has power and running water for so long.
  — William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
• Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich isn’t hand-waving it away either.
  — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 12 June 2026
• The obsequiousness, the sneers, the boasting, the vacant generalities, and the hand-waving bespeak fear of departing from the Trumpian orthodoxy of the moment.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
• Various things happen to most of these characters throughout season four, which is a description with exactly the vague hand-waving about significant events that The Gilded Age invites.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026