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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gesticulate .
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Examples
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As you see the way he sits and thinks and gesticulates, which is usually fairly limited, at least in -- outside of the courtroom contacts, very similar.
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Carroll depends here upon the strong contrast between his rather spiky protagonist (who gesticulates in a decidedly unfeline way) and what most people observe in real cats.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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David Dimbleby gesticulates as he introduces the discussion on breast implants on Question Time.
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Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, his wife, he gesticulates non-stop, and the movements are so broad that this respondent finds it challenging to watch Daisey for more than seconds at a time.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple David Finkle 2011
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He gesticulates wildly when talking about his ideas and listens to Bossa nova, Brazilian jazz music he discovered while living in Rio de Janeiro.
Wall Street Sense for Main Street Shelly Banjo 2011
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But the spectators take the clown's desperate pleas as part of his schtick; and the more he gesticulates the more they laugh, until fire engulfs the whole theater.
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But the spectators take the clown's desperate pleas as part of his schtick; and the more he gesticulates the more they laugh, until fire engulfs the whole theater.
Atheism 2009
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His hands are large and, as he gesticulates, seem a bit like wings.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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But the spectators take the clown's desperate pleas as part of his schtick; and the more he gesticulates the more they laugh, until fire engulfs the whole theater.
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His hands are large and, as he gesticulates, seem a bit like wings.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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