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How to use gesticulate in a sentence
BB-8 moves fluidly and playfully, and K-2SO walks with a lazy gait and gesticulates wildly, while their counterparts move rigidly and precisely.
At first he kept his hands behind his back in a tight knot; then he began to gesticulate as he turned.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis StevensonMy subordinates may gird their loins to leap and run and gesticulate, shedding their own blood the while in crimson streams.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
This is particularly the case with people who are somewhat theatrical and hence gesticulate too much.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossThe collar of his coat on the right side had an unpleasant way of flying up whenever he raised his arm to gesticulate.
Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) | William H. HerndonOne was talking loquaciously, using his free arm, on which hung a cane, to gesticulate.
Long Live the King | Mary Roberts Rinehart
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