Example sentences for: gesture

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

  • In the '90s, gesture artists sold out.

  • Lederer understood the expression go off half cocked to mean `futile gesture' because the flintlock is unlikely to spark.

  • But when her web of lies begins to unravel and he calls her "pretty bird," she rolls her eyes in a gesture at once accepting of his flattery, aware of her deceit, and resentful of his condescension.

  • Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.

  • noun: A celebratory gesture (originally used in basketball and baseball) in which two people slap their right hands together high over their heads; often in the phrase to lay down or slap high-fives.


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