How to Use gestural in a Sentence

gestural

adjective

• Her color work is very good but more static and less gestural.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• One look, covered in what looks like gestural paintbrush marks across an outfit, was stunnnig.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Some are nearly as gestural, as off the wall, as the ravings of @realDonaldTrump.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
• This footage captures her exacting gestural work with fingers and arms.
  — Sheila Regan, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• Rouy’s work is large gestural paintings of bodies in motion or in states of becoming.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
• Get ready for a display of complex footwork and intricate gestural artistry as the kathak dancers share their skills.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
• The allegro has gestural spans that collapse if not sustained, and these were carried over the entire work.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
• Wittenberg’s erotic art has the same open, gestural brushstrokes of her landscapes.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
• Google says that to reach slide-out menus, people using fully gestural navigation will be able to tap and hold near the edge of the screen.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 3 July 2019
• His palette is light, smudgy guitar textures and warm synths; his message, more gestural than discursive, is love and lust.
  — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
• This time it was brought back to life with illustrations full of character and expressive gestural linework.
  — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
• The massive work is tamed by an assertive elegance that evokes the gestural brushstrokes of James Nares.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• If the gestural mark making suggests an open and exploratory quality, the paint itself has a weighty nature.
  — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 6 July 2018
• But as a conductor Schiff affects no airs; his gestural vocabulary feels of a piece with his pianism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Orlando, the show also features large-scale paintings that Robb often used his hands to paint in gestural motion and flow.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2022
• That is why his support for the Iranian rebellion was merely gestural.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 17 June 2023
• Boldly gestural, done in ink and marker, these often toy with geometries to be realized in three dimensions.
  — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The two earliest works here, which include the show’s namesake, are gestural in the manner of abstract expressionism.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• The first semiofficial gestural fan language was written by a Spanish man known simply as Fenella.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
• The papers acted as a substrate onto which Venson, who is trained as a fine artist, overpainted layers of gestural brushstrokes.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 25 Mar. 2021
• While best known for monumental works in steel, di Suvero can wield a brush or marker with gestural precision — indeed, eloquence.
  — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The control subject is only given the gestural command without any demonstration.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• But the gestural quality of the application was not essential to Stella.
  — Walter Hopps, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• The Dutch-American artist de Kooning used vivid hues of yellow, turquoise and crimson and a distinctive, gestural brush stroke.
  — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2022
• The paintings and sculptures, with their gestural strokes and sleek geometry, respectively, have the look of more straightforward modernist works.
  — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• And yet Manguso addresses race and ethnicity only at the level of metaphor, and the book’s approach to class feels almost as gestural.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2022
• Her stories don’t need to be grand because human experience is largely not; it is lived on the level of the daily, the conversational, the gestural.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• Viewed up close, these marks bear a whiff of 1950s Abstract Expressionist gestural painting.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Their irregular dark clay forms echoed Miro’s playful, gestural lines as did stems of ranunculus (some in bud), eucalyptus and white tallow berry gone to seed.
  — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• The gestural scale of Pronouns both maps and encourages an ASL conversation space.
  — Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025