Example Sentences

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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 Gordon, Cora

On the car roofs, a few strapping lads were gesticulating, with arms and legs extended, while the wind rippled in the folds of their dark trousers, above the white leggings.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente

Close to Nan and Coxeter two men were talking Spanish; they were gesticulating, and seemed to be disagreeing angrily as to what course to pursue.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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

They had seized their weapons, and were gesticulating and pointing at Falkner: in fact, working themselves up to a state of wild and dangerous excitement.

From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram