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Example sentences for "gesticulated"

Lexicographically close words:
gestation; geste; gestern; gestes; gesticulate; gesticulating; gesticulation; gesticulations; gestis; gests
  1. They gesticulated as they talked, and shrugged their pretty shoulders with a grace taught them by our Spanish predecessors.

  2. Mr. Pulcifer leaned forward and gesticulated with the cigar just before his visitor's nose.

  3. During his next speech he gesticulated with it.

  4. The camel man and I went down the steep incline, and when we reached the last houses of the village a great number of people were congregated on the roofs, who gesticulated frantically and yelled something or other at me as I passed.

  5. So we entered the village by a narrow path, while men, women and children collected on the house-tops and in the doorways and gesticulated and spouted away as fine a collection of insults as one may expect to listen to in one's life.

  6. But a loud wind shook through the stripped and broken forest; lament was in all the branches, the wind forced them upwards and they gesticulated their despair.

  7. And the whole company talked and sang, laughed and wept, gesticulated and danced and performed innumerable artifices.

  8. The engineer was loudly refreshing Pod's memory that he had no right on the railroad bed with his donkeys, and the female passengers gesticulated wildly and condoled with Damfino and me for the deep predicament we were in.

  9. Presently a timid woman following us with a terpsichorean horse called to me and gesticulated wildly.

  10. My captors also saw them, and gesticulated savagely.

  11. The yellow fellow gesticulated in the face of my captors.

  12. Phantom shadows grew and gesticulated and stretched their wraith-like arms out toward them.

  13. Affrighted, he had dropped his burden so suddenly that its weight had jerked the other arm outside, and now the inverted dead face swung to and fro, and gesticulated between the wheels in the moonlight.

  14. It seemed as though in conversation the girl became animated, for she gesticulated slightly as though in angry protest at some remark of her companion, and then suddenly I had a great surprise.

  15. When he spoke he slightly aspirated his c's, and now and then he gesticulated when enthusiastic, due, of course, to his long residence abroad.

  16. He gesticulated menacingly in his own fashion with his stick, and went his way angrily.

  17. He had taken off his hat, and, while talking to himself, gesticulated violently.

  18. Old Tabaret, more Tirauclair than ever, gesticulated with such comical vehemence and such remarkable contortions that even the tall clerk smiled, for which, however, he took himself severely to task on going to bed that night.

  19. They turned their faces this way and that, and Nunez gesticulated with freedom.

  20. These people told their story in gesticulated fragments, as first one boat drew alongside and then another.

  21. The captain walked his deck and gesticulated to himself.

  22. In all cases his face was pale and distressed, and in some he gesticulated towards the dreamer.

  23. The colour began to come back, into Jules's face; he gesticulated with his cigar and became more and more dramatic.

  24. The raw light had imparted a grey tinge to his pale face, the growth of his beard showed black already beneath the skin; his thumbs were hooked in the pockets of a closely buttoned coat, he gesticulated with his fingers.

  25. He gesticulated with the shabby old hat and the slim walking-stick as if he had been wielding sword and buckler in an opera, and his narrow chest swelled under the tight buttons of his ragged old frock-coat.

  26. Ruffiano, who had constituted himself chairman, gesticulated like a windmill, and roared till he was hoarse in the vain effort to secure silence.

  27. Doctor Ruiz shouted and gesticulated from the contrabarrera.

  28. The people gesticulated and waved their arms with roars of indignation.

  29. The younger man unsmilingly gesticulated like one who has been touched in sword-play.

  30. Mr. Pope gesticulated with thin hands and seemed upon the verge of eloquence.

  31. Hoes were plying, buckets swinging, shrill voices rose on the serene air, and lean arms gesticulated with a vehemence ill-proportioned to the amount of labour accomplished or the importance of the subject discussed.

  32. Willoughby gesticulated as mute chorus on the side of the ladies; and a little show of party spirit like that, coming upon their excitement under the topic, inclined them to him genially.

  33. Sir Willoughby gesticulated the "Of course not" of an established assurance to the contrary.

  34. And there she saw two little black figures, so small it was hard to believe they were men, one who watched and one who gesticulated with hands outstretched to the silent emptiness of Heaven.

  35. All the others save the woman gesticulated towards the hall.

  36. The vague shadows of these workers gesticulated about their feet, and rushed to and fro against a long stretch of white-washed wall.

  37. He talked loudly, he gesticulated violently, he smashed the furniture, and invariably knocked his pipe out in such a frantic manner that he broke the stem.

  38. He gesticulated wildly, and, holding his rifle in his left hand, pointed down-stream with his right.

  39. Puffat's big toes and thumbs were hacked off, gesticulated she, jerking at her own toes and thumbs with either bony hand and a rising croak of wheezing lungs and that unnerving, squinting stare.

  40. They could not hear clearly what was said, but the giant gesticulated with his huge hands so much that it was interesting to watch and try to figure out.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gesticulated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.