gesticulate
verb (used without object)
to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
had been gesticulating
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past perfect progressiveof gesticulate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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“What for?” said Charley Vining’s jealous heart, as he recalled the excited way in which Max had been gesticulating before his sister.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
He had been gesticulating with one hand, which he now jammed wrathfully into his pocket.
From Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister
He found that in his enthusiastic gesticulations he had been gesticulating with her hand as well as his own.
From Space Platform by Murray Leinster
The dear brown manly hand that had potted tigers while she had been gesticulating on platforms—a performing lioness.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
