gesticulate

Wax figures of scrappy, earnest young communists gesticulate during a 1921 meeting frozen in time, debating how best to bring Marxism to China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

On the touchline, Postecoglou was going potty, somehow managing to gesticulate wildly in six different directions at the same time in the kind of fluid movement that was utterly beyond the players he was berating.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

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

City’s manager was furious, repeatedly turning to the Anfield fans behind the dugout to gesticulate.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

Never gesticulate when conversing; it looks theatrical, and is ill-bred; so are all contortions of the features, shrugging of shoulders, raising of the eyebrows, or hands.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

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

Guardiola repeatedly gesticulated at fans in the immediate aftermath and later said coins were thrown in his direction.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

The former National threw down his bat and gesticulated frantically while screaming at Hernandez.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 25, 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

He gesticulated, his words tangling up with one another.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

The windows of the houses we passed were lit, and I could snatch glimpses of quiet lives — a mother clearing a table, or men gesticulating with their pipes.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson