How to Use gesticulate in a Sentence

gesticulate

verb

• Djokovic would look at his guest box, gesticulating or shouting.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
• Madden could bark at players and gesticulate and yell on the sidelines.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2021
• Perhaps that was enough for some of the hardcores who danced and gesticulated in their seats throughout the show.
  — cleveland, 12 July 2023
• There was Green, gesticulating at his teammates on the bench.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• Macron worked hard to keep his cool as Le Pen smirked, gesticulated and provoked.
  — Alan Crawford, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
• One family nearby looked over at the boys, who were gesticulating with such force that water splashed around them.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• And, indeed, Carolyn went on to yelp, eye-roll, and gesticulate her way through the game in a delightful way.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• Bess finally blurted out, gesticulating and knocking over her glass of wine just as Sam opened a new bottle.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
• The man who can gesticulate as wildly on the sidelines as a broken windmill in a storm sought first to energize the supporters.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 25 June 2020
• Trump, sitting at the defense table, scoffed, gesticulated and spoke audibly to his lawyer.
  — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
• Video footage shows a brief conversation between the duo, hands gesticulating, brows furrowed.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• Balotelli was booked for gesticulating angrily at the crowd in the game on Saturday.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Motor or beat gestures can only occur in tandem with speech—think gesticulating to emphasize a point.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 19 June 2024
• The gesticulating Italian is a stubborn stereotype, but some drew the boundary even farther north.
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 10 July 2023
• Fried, the defendant’s mother, was gesticulating, and clearly had a strong opinion about something.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
• The video, without sound, shows the three of them gesticulating at each other before the 13-year-old in red pants appears to charge David and stab him.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
• That pet-sized fly that Jean-Gab teaches to gesticulate is a gruesome reminder of some of our most repulsive public activists.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2021
• Video of the scuffle shows lawmakers pushing one another, yelling and gesticulating.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
• Their remaining team-mates applauded the away enclosure, but many in that section were gesticulating their disdain.
  — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
• Both actors are committed to the bit, gesticulating wildly and passionately, but the specifics of their performances clash with the movie’s premise.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
• Down on the plush leather seats of the substitutes bench, the birthday boy watches his teammates celebrate and gesticulate to their loyal followers up in the heavens.
  — SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• In video of the encounter, a student is seen approaching an educator and gesticulating angrily before teeing off on the man with a right hook.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 7 Apr. 2023
• How the players managed to finesse the score’s fast-flying, hairpin turns with a conductor who used not a baton but just his gesticulating hands was something of a mystery.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Instead of ripping off his shirt, or wildly gesticulating, McTominay ran to the edge of the pitch with his hands facing down and his lips pursed.
  — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
• Above her, the rest of the art-world figures—all, as Bloemink shows, caricatural portraits of real people—gesticulate and grimace.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Pep Guardiola was animated throughout the game, gesticulating in all directions as his side were carved open at the back on far too many occasions.
  — SI.com, 27 July 2019
• After the ejection, Hyde extended the argument — throwing his cap to the ground and gesticulating while screaming at the umpires.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023
• An irate Vettel then accelerated alongside Hamilton, gesticulated and moved his car to the right and into him.
  — Jerome Pugmire, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
• Video doesn’t help; even in a clinical realm, a man gesticulating over his scrotum on a webcam is of limited informational value.
  — Robert Lurvey, Wired, 8 Apr. 2020
• With the play clock under five seconds, rookie safety Eddie Jackson gesticulated to his teammates.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017