as in motioning
to direct or notify by a movement or gesture
the police officer gestured me to the side of the road to tell me my headlight was out
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Recent Examples of gesturing
His lyrics detail a process of active healing, gesturing at a contentedness that beds in as your 20 begin to wane.
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Liam Inscoe-Jones, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
Two tiny humanoid robots that can play soccer stand in a glass case, one blinking and gesturing at visitors and the other partially disassembled to reveal the engineering inside.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
Is this person gesturing hello or leave me alone?
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Prohibited communication methods include blowing a whistle and gesturing.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Everyone sat down around a fire pit, except for Land, who stood, face lit from below, gesturing and swaying.
—James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Forward Justin Cross tapped his head, gesturing that the dunk was on the defender’s head.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2026
Paton hung up, and called back, and walked Lock through it, and Natalie stood across from him, gesturing with her fingers in the air as if pointing at an invisible map of the United States.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Liam Inscoe-Jones, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
Two tiny humanoid robots that can play soccer stand in a glass case, one blinking and gesturing at visitors and the other partially disassembled to reveal the engineering inside.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
Is this person gesturing hello or leave me alone?
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Prohibited communication methods include blowing a whistle and gesturing.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Everyone sat down around a fire pit, except for Land, who stood, face lit from below, gesturing and swaying.
—James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Forward Justin Cross tapped his head, gesturing that the dunk was on the defender’s head.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2026
Paton hung up, and called back, and walked Lock through it, and Natalie stood across from him, gesturing with her fingers in the air as if pointing at an invisible map of the United States.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gesturing
Verb
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With the game well out of reach and 10 seconds to play, Tre White dunked — despite Self motioning from the sideline to dribble it out.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2026
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Good appears to be motioning to them with her hands.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
Verb
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From the flags waving outside churches to the food lining the shelves inside local markets, Armenian culture is visible throughout Watertown, Massachusetts.—
Aaron Parseghian,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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And yet there Friedmann was, waving at his antagonist.—
James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Gesturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gesturing. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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