gestures
Example Sentences
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The article characterizes his demeanor as overly restrained and controlled, contrasting his stiff posture and stone-faced expression with the animated gestures and expressions of other candidates.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Sport, performance and culture, body language and even gestures are all used in the course and, until a few years ago, no language was taught at all.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
These gestures offer a lesson about our human condition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
In Still Alive, Samay Raina gestures to that fragile balance: how jokes, once released into the online world, can travel far beyond their original context, taking on new meanings, and sometimes carry serious consequences.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
She gestures vaguely toward the sound of the water.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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