gesticulate
verb (used without object)
to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
were gesticulating
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past progressiveof gesticulate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Some three hours after our start, we perceived symptoms of excitement amongst the foremost of our band, and hastened to the eminence from which they were gesticulating.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
As they came nearer they could tell that the boys were gesticulating and shouting to something in the water.
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
The inmates, exasperated at the spectacle before them, were gesticulating from the windows--the women screaming and the men shouting, but no attention was paid to their uproar.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
The men hunted on mules, their guns across the pommels of their saddles, and now they were gesticulating angrily for him to come in.
From Frank of Freedom Hill by Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur) Derieux
They were gesticulating wildly, vociferating loudly, shouldering bundle, knapsack or tool-kit.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
