gesture
Example Sentences
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Guests might forget the exact ingredients, but they’ll remember the gesture.
From Salon
Putin wanted to talk to the new Middle East envoy, and there was a deal to be done: Russia might be willing to negotiate a prisoner exchange as a gesture of good faith.
"I have experience compared to these two," she said, gesturing at the other finalists.
From BBC
He didn’t have to make the gesture; but it’s a measure of his decency that he doffed his hat to her.
The guess here is that he won’t ever make the gesture again.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
