body language

Example Sentences

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He captured Joe Jackson in every sense, he says, from “the look and his body language and even the way he spoke.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

She punched the air at the conclusion, and even as she missed out on a medal she had the body language of someone pleased to have brought her best to the Olympic stage.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Each and every one showed a good body language today.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

The 52-year-old had his head in his hands when the final whistle went -- his body language as negative as the horrendous weather which had left puddles all over the pitch.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

Humans and chimpanzees and meerkats and stingrays can read body language by instinct without having to learn it.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd