gestures

Example Sentences

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It was a formal recognition that graffiti artists are central to Los Angeles’ identity, but I couldn’t help but wonder about the gesture’s sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2024

Each test-taker was shown 20 short clips of chimps or bonobos making gestures and asked to decide which of four possible answers described each gesture’s meaning.

From Scientific American • Jan. 24, 2023

Its particular target at that particular church on that particular morning remains the gesture’s one inexplicit feature.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2021

In this internet age of viral memes and hidden signal, the gesture’s resonance does not seem to have been lost in Estonia.

From New York Times • May 1, 2019

On this the chief levelled his musket, with significant gesture’s, showing that he intended to persist in his demand.

From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell