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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The seamen were gesticulating freely; the sound of their voices came up to him where he stood, tinged with a new freedom of speech, rough, confident, menacing.
From A Man to His Mate by Stockton Mulford
White-bearded officers with grey-green uniforms were gesticulating to white-bearded civilians outside the Café de Paris.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
The two men were gesticulating wildly together, and as the train pulled away from them, Bulstrode turned about and faced the little Queen.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst
Both were talking eagerly, both were gesticulating excitedly, and both looked exactly what they were, two very eccentric specimens of humanity.
From God's Good Man by Marie Corelli
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
