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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gesticulate.

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Examples

  • These men, who slaughtered English, gesticulated like lunatics, and fought one another's ideas with primitive anger, seemed somehow to be more alive than Mr. Morse and his crony, Mr. Butler.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • I watched as Tony talked and gesticulated with an elderly man and a younger one who must have been his son.

    Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011

  • James gesticulated wildly to the bench in that chilling dance of the sportsman who knows something horrific has happened.

    Gloucester 34-22 Bath | Premiership match report 2011

  • Rodriguez gestured and gesticulated on the mound, pointed to the sky after recording the final out, and allowed his emotions to froth so much that he sought anger-management counseling after assaulting his girlfriend's father last year.

    Too Normal to Be the Closer? Mike Sielski 2011

  • Janice and I shuffled between the happy people who stood and gesticulated on the crowded avenue.

    Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011

  • There on the inlaid stone of the courtyard labyrinth, Charlie and Lena gesticulated like bad actors.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • There on the inlaid stone of the courtyard labyrinth, Charlie and Lena gesticulated like bad actors.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Quentin Tarantino who speaks in only one mode, passionate, gesticulated wildly button holing a rapt Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal, about his favorite moment in Lone Scherfig's An Education, a personal favorite that will sure be listed among the Oscar's Nominated 10.

    Regina Weinreich: Golden Globes for Beginners 2010

  • As he spoke, he laughed and gesticulated wildly with his hands, illustrating how he and his design partner don't take anything too literally.

    The Return Of Confidence Rachel Dodes 2010

  •  The cop grabbed her partner and gesticulated wildly.

    Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession 2010

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