How to Use gesticulation in a Sentence
gesticulation
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Most of the jeeps erupted in shouts and wild gesticulations.
—Lini S. Kadaba, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
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Point it at a scene, twist the lens to turn it on, and the A.I. looks for criteria culled from years of data analysis—smiles, gesticulation, a pet entering the frame.
—Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
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In her brash Texas drawl, Jo Harvey laughed about their many near-divorces as Terry observed her gesticulations with a wry smile.
—John Lingan, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
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Bryant appears to be most confused that the base runner doesn't have to wave but can do any manner of gesticulation, according to the unwritten rules of the ritual.
—Marissa Payne, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
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His intense eyes and demonstrative gesticulation suggest the gregariousness of someone used to managing the front and back of the house.
—Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2019
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Not a minute later, Curry was driving hard through traffic, punctuating a floater with gesticulations to the baseline crowd and a rare profanity.
—Ben Golliver, SI.com, 21 May 2018
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Even in this show’s idiosyncratic universe, can a series of celestial gesticulations really bring people back from the dead?
—Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 8 Feb. 2017
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It is also written in his crowded features and high color, the vocal ferocity of his anger, his tendency towards gesticulation, the straying wisps of his white hair.
—Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
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South Carolina head coach Frank Martin has earned a reputation as one of the angriest coaches in college basketball with a repertoire of gesticulations and outbursts that can turn his cheeks the color of his garnet jackets.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2017
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His is an amalgam of swirling turns, more subdued facial expressions, and softer, but equally articulate gesticulations.
—Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
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And his constant movement and gesticulation proved less distracting there than in smaller auditoriums.
—James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
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Whilst their country's footballing representatives were remonstrating, their footballing emissary, Prince Fahid, displayed his own disproval with frenetic gesticulation from the stands.
—SI.com, 22 Apr. 2018
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Postmodern architecture had always gestured toward the antique past, usually in a mode of acerbic or calculatingly boisterous irony, but Kuma’s wild gesticulations in M2 were grotesque and overwhelming.
—Nikil Saval, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
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