Words similar to gesture

Example sentences for: gesture

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

I was moved, excited, and very surprised by this gesture from the faculty , who funded this award from their pockets.
Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.
The flag-raising isn't milked for its patriotism: It's a deeply goofy gesture and totally consistent with its heroes' sense of momentousness.
"Now, just a few short years later, the Clinton team is defensively and guiltily struggling to ignore the world's largest country, and top US officials disingenuously profess not to be worried by the sight of Russian blackjack bombers flying over Norway in a nose-thumbing gesture at the West."
This may or may not be an ineffectual gesture on Human Rights Watch's part; what's significant is that the news coverage of the China deal presented the human-rights issue as so negligible that such questions didn't even need to be answered.