gesticulate
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Let the officers pore over their digital maps and the soldiers gesticulate obscurely at one another on the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
They even made note of our facial expressions and the way we would gesticulate, and they worked that into it a bit, so I would say it was unusually collaborative.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2024
They grin and gesticulate as they take it in turns to talk.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
City’s manager was furious, repeatedly turning to the Anfield fans behind the dugout to gesticulate.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
Though very voluble in speech, they do not gesticulate, and, as a rule, use their hands only to indicate the size of an object they are describing.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
Goodman is animated, her long red hair moving with her as she gesticulates.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
As she argues a point, she gesticulates broadly, leans forward and occasionally pounds the table.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
Instead, he drops it and picks it up, twirls it like a baton, and gesticulates wildly with it.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2019
The character — on closer inspection, an animated frog — paces and gesticulates, then disappears behind a fence before returning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2018
He gesticulates wildly toward Rosie, ranting without pause.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Nuno was also said to have "gesticulated aggressively" at Jones.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel gesticulated wildly at his players to push forward, then threw his arms up in exasperation.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Over and over, he gesticulated and yelled toward his guest box, where only four of the 15 seats were occupied, quite a contrast to Tiafoe’s completely full section.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Kirby Smart leaped and danced and gesticulated across the field at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the entirety of Monday night.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
M. Bouc, who was already seated, gesticulated a greeting and summoned his friend to the empty place opposite him.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
When Jimmy is passionately advocating for something and Kayla is in the same frame, she’s often gesticulating, scrunching up her face or emitting noises like “pffffft.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Instead of listening to music, we listen to the news constantly," the father of three, gesticulating to emphasise his point, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
The woman was gesticulating with carefully contained fury.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2025
The footage played on Thursday showed Mr Baldwin gesticulating with a pistol loaded with blanks and firing the gun within close proximity to camera operators, the AFP news agency reported.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
Always his arm was in the air, waving and gesticulating.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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