Example Sentences

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Minhaj stands for the entirety of Patriot Act, and his delivery is almost wildly gesticulatory, giving the series a loose but emphatic energy.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2018

The French loungers are gesticulatory, and shoulders, arms, fingers, eyes and eyebrows help out the tongue's rapid utterance; but they are never rude or boisterous.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

So they made ovation, fervid, gesticulatory, and obscure.

From Little Aliens by Kelly, Myra

The captain had a superstitious fear of his hold: he became wildly gesticulatory and expository and incompetent at the bare thought of it.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The room was illumined by a pervasive red glow from the embers, in which he saw his own shadow, gigantic, gesticulatory, as he rose to his feet, listening again to—silence!

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles