Example Sentences

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But in neither case did they explain the underlying conspiracy theories they were gesturing to.

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2019

Not all of the students in the photograph were gesturing.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2018

The guides were gesturing at them not to move.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2017

The young men among them were gesturing more excitedly than usual and I thought they must have seen an adventure film.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

The Fjerdan guards were gesturing over their papers, trying to make the numbers and identities of the prisoners match up to the group before them.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo