gesture
Example Sentences
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In other works, broad gestures replace repetitive dots, blurring the imagery and changing a tense assertion of surface into predictable quasi-abstraction.
In a gesture of solidarity, a modest number of military personnel were deployed to Greenland this month by a handful of European countries including France.
From Barron's
He shrinks it with reckless gestures aimed at keeping his name in the news.
“May I?” he asks, gesturing at her hat.
From Literature
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It’s a small detail, but it makes the gesture feel more universally welcoming.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.