Gesticulate is an English word with synonyms like gesture or motion. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gesticulate meaning
- To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
- To say or express through gestures.
Synonyms of Gesticulate
Using Gesticulate
- The main meaning on this page is: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking. | To say or express through gestures.
- Useful related words include: gesture, motion, communicate, intercommunicate.
Context around Gesticulate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gesticulate
- In this selection, "gesticulate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, figures, beseechingly and listening stand out and add context to how "gesticulate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include fingers to gesticulate in the and pace and gesticulate listening carefully. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gesticulate" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gesticulate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She used her "oh, no she dih-int" AOC fingers to gesticulate in the faces of the Jewish family calling the girl "a whore" and other epithets. (27 words)
The players sit stoically in the visitors’ dressing room, watching their coach pace and gesticulate, listening carefully as he implores them to toughen up in the face of a two-goal half-time deficit. (34 words)
In a third strip, nude brown-skinned figures gesticulate beseechingly, and over all of this a line giant feet, shod in military boots and or emerging from pinstripe trousers, that seem to be crushing all below. (36 words)
In a third strip, nude brown-skinned figures gesticulate beseechingly, and over all of this a line giant feet, shod in military boots and or emerging from pinstripe trousers, that seem to be crushing all below. (36 words)
The players sit stoically in the visitors’ dressing room, watching their coach pace and gesticulate, listening carefully as he implores them to toughen up in the face of a two-goal half-time deficit. (34 words)
She used her "oh, no she dih-int" AOC fingers to gesticulate in the faces of the Jewish family calling the girl "a whore" and other epithets. (27 words)
Example sentences (3)
In a third strip, nude brown-skinned figures gesticulate beseechingly, and over all of this a line giant feet, shod in military boots and or emerging from pinstripe trousers, that seem to be crushing all below.
She used her "oh, no she dih-int" AOC fingers to gesticulate in the faces of the Jewish family calling the girl "a whore" and other epithets.
The players sit stoically in the visitors’ dressing room, watching their coach pace and gesticulate, listening carefully as he implores them to toughen up in the face of a two-goal half-time deficit.