How to Use gesticulation in a Sentence

gesticulation

noun

• Darius was also quite good but went a little too over the top with his gesticulations to come off sincere.
  — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 10 Mar. 2025
• Musk also has a history of doing weird gesticulations on stage.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• There was a rush of gesticulations, with Greenberg speaking in English.
  — Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• Keke’s the one whose flamboyant gesticulation and charismatic storytelling style are sought after by talk show bookers.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• As the bit continued, Gardner increased her wildly gesticulation and rising-and-bobbing out of her chair.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
• Bryant appears to be most confused that the base runner doesn't have to wave but can do any manner of gesticulation, according to the unwritten rules of the ritual.
  — Marissa Payne, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
• Even in this show’s idiosyncratic universe, can a series of celestial gesticulations really bring people back from the dead?
  — Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 8 Feb. 2017
• In her brash Texas drawl, Jo Harvey laughed about their many near-divorces as Terry observed her gesticulations with a wry smile.
  — John Lingan, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• His intense eyes and demonstrative gesticulation suggest the gregariousness of someone used to managing the front and back of the house.
  — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2019
• The trick was creating a garment that allowed for Bernstein’s trademark gesticulation but still hung like a traditional coat.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• Stewart backed their rote enthusiasm with white-boy disco-dance moves and gesticulations modeled after Colbert’s clowning on his own show.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 July 2025
• There was an entire narrative visible through Booster’s active anger in the face of such a decisive gesticulation.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
• But on a Sunday morning in July 1595, the groan of the heavy wooden door startled him from his gesticulations.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
• His is an amalgam of swirling turns, more subdued facial expressions, and softer, but equally articulate gesticulations.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• It is also written in his crowded features and high color, the vocal ferocity of his anger, his tendency towards gesticulation, the straying wisps of his white hair.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
• And his constant movement and gesticulation proved less distracting there than in smaller auditoriums.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Not a minute later, Curry was driving hard through traffic, punctuating a floater with gesticulations to the baseline crowd and a rare profanity.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 21 May 2018
• Every face twitch and arm gesticulation conveys Terry’s complete exasperation with everything and everyone in his world.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• Contrary to popular belief, such actions are perceived as gesticulation that companies are transparent and genuinely care about DEI.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
• As Mabel, Rowlands offered a raw vulnerability in every facial contortion and wild gesticulation.
  — Christina Newland, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
• Whilst their country's footballing representatives were remonstrating, their footballing emissary, Prince Fahid, displayed his own disproval with frenetic gesticulation from the stands.
  — SI.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• South Carolina head coach Frank Martin has earned a reputation as one of the angriest coaches in college basketball with a repertoire of gesticulations and outbursts that can turn his cheeks the color of his garnet jackets.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2017
• Postmodern architecture had always gestured toward the antique past, usually in a mode of acerbic or calculatingly boisterous irony, but Kuma’s wild gesticulations in M2 were grotesque and overwhelming.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• What followed was a benches-clearing quarrel between Miller, Sal Stewart and their respective teams, the dramatic conclusion to a two-day saga between the Giants and Reds featuring beanballs, cuss words and aggressive gesticulation.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• Twenty-four hours later, Karol is calm (and dry) in a quiet Los Angeles studio, talking with her usual expressiveness and candor in sentences punctuated by crescendos, accents and exclamations and augmented by enthusiastic gesticulations.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
• The performing community challenged that notion, tracing the scat-singing and gesticulations to earlier artists including Black jazz performer Baby Esther Jones and cabaret entertainer Florence Mills.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026