Example Sentences

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Your palms get sweaty, you need a nervous trip to the toilet every five minutes and you can't take your eyes off who the opposition captain is gesturing at to bowl next.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

The produce drawer at the bottom of the fridge is open and my mother is gesturing importantly, but no one can hear her anymore because we are apoplectic.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2021

Nelson is gesturing at her partner’s physical and emotional changes, and at her own, but the image seems germane to the book itself: planks slide in or out, but the craft sails on.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2020

Johnson won’t be able to impress people for long with pictures of him sitting at a desk, even if he is gesturing passionately.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019

And as the drone of the mega-trumpets that have just heralded the dawn recede, and a cacophony of young monks’ chants float down from the prayer hall, Sonam is gesturing towards yet another vivid experience.

From Washington Post