gestures

Example Sentences

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“James Joyce” gestures toward these later events, and Callanan might have devoted a second volume to them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Informing her decision to visit Spain, she said, were recent conciliatory gestures from Spanish leaders.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.

From BBC • 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

Father Masego settles into a leather chair behind his desk and gestures for my parents to take the two matching seats opposite him.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray