Example sentences for: gesture

How can you use “gesture” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When Wade's girlfriend Margie (Sissy Spacek) confronts him about a crude remark, he fixes her with a leer while licking salt off the back of his hand--a gesture more wolfishly obscene than anything he could say.

  • Afterwards, they cut back to the anchorwoman and she's trading quips with the other newscaster and fanning herself in that Hand-Gesture That Wouldn't Raise an Eyebrow in the Middle of Sunday Services way that very, very middle-aged, very, very white people do to indicate that they have become sexually aroused.

  • of expression, dense as stone, clinical as light,unmoved, as if the fantasy is that there isn't one,that she isn't dancing any gesture of what sheimagines he imagines she would feel like if hewere doing to her what she pretends he does.

  • The appalled Apollo makes an operatic gesture of horror over his muscular lover, while a satyr and a parrot (symbols of forbidden lust) stare sardonically down at the proceedings.

  • "In a land where movement is virtue, where the echo of heels clicking rapidly on pavement is inordinately blest, it is a grand, defiant, and edifying gesture to lie down for six months."


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