gesticulate
verb (used without object)
to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
are gesticulating
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present progressiveof gesticulate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You pass into it from behind some raised benches, on which several stout old gentlemen are gesticulating with all their might.
From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Several have huge heads of hair, and all are gesticulating violently, as if recounting their deeds of valour.
From The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific by Alfred Pearse
They are gesticulating and several are pointing to the train!
From The Black Cross by Olive M. Briggs
