When we nodded, she broke into a wide grin, gestured with two thumbs up, and finished off with a high-five.
And he gestured toward ideas—straightforward cash payments and an end to means-testing—that would sit well with liberals.
He gestured for everyone to look down into a little vale that opened up to the side of their path.
Sulaiman gestured with his freed hands to the lawyers seated on either side of him.
He gestured and called for them to ignore him and go into the temple, where more people likely needed help.
I was at a loss, until he gestured toward the room of the Honourable George.
She gestured at the sullen Franklin who was sitting on the couch.
"By God, if he should try that—to equate her from Logical into reject—" He gestured helplessly.
For answer the Eurasian gestured apologetically to his guards.
He gestured and waved, and, to Foster, the sign language was plain.
1540s, from gesture (n.). Related: Gestured; gesturing.
early 15c., "manner of carrying the body," from Medieval Latin gestura "bearing, behavior," from Latin gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest). Restricted sense of "a movement of the body or a part of it" is from 1550s; figurative sense of "action undertaken in good will to express feeling" is from 1916.
