Example sentences for: gesture

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

  • This season's hot new gesture?

  • The high-five was originally a gesture developed for use in basketball, where it first appeared among the University of Louisville team in the 1979-80 season; Louisville player Derek Smith claims to have coined the name.

  • When Tracy comes upon Paul at a table, gathering signatures for his nominating petition, she responds with cold fury, but she also scrawls her name on his sheet--a complex, defiant, irreducible gesture.

  • Vaughn is so good that by the end of the film his every gesture and step seems weighted, as if he has put on a hundred pounds.

  • Half cock does not give enough power to generate sparks and fire the pistol, so it is a futile gesture.


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