Gesture
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401 examples of Gesture in a sentence
Some lads were making fun of her; they burst out laughing because she suddenly showed them her posterior, a
gesture
which in her was the extreme expression of contempt.
A third entered, was served in response to a gesture, paid and went away without uttering a word.
The father imposed silence with a
gesture.
Maheude made a vague
gesture
of apology.
Then by a
gesture
they quickly called Maheude, who was still carrying Estelle in her arms.
Then, lying in a heap against him, her ears laid back, she would close her eyes; and without growing tired, with an unconscious caressing gesture, he would pass his hand over her grey silky fur, calmed by that warm living softness.
She refused with a
gesture
and laughed louder, playing the fine lady.
Then, with a
gesture
of anger, she was lost in the crowd.
"Oh, Lord, Lord!"Then her hands fell on to her knees with a
gesture
of immense dejection:"Then if that's true, we are done for, we are."
The pikeman made a
gesture
of despair.
Maheu persisted with such energy that he refused, with a furious gesture, when another man approached to relieve him for a moment.
Then he made a
gesture
of resignation: what was the good?
Maheude made a
gesture
of despair.
The delegates had followed the vague
gesture
of his hand toward one of the windows.
She made a vague gesture, and there was silence, a silence which was painful and heavy with unspoken things.
With a
gesture
he enforced silence.
Maheude made an energetic
gesture.
With an indignant
gesture
he threatened Lydie, who was full of remorse and fear, and talked of going back to the Voreux to gather dandelions.
Already Rasseneur had replaced him, and with a
gesture
demanded silence.
And as if to reject all responsibility for the evils which he foresaw, he made a large gesture, and went away alone across the country, pale and silent.
Deneulin came out of the captains' room, and quite alone, with a
gesture
forbidding any one to follow him, he went over the pit.
With a gesture, he had turned the crowd towards the left road; while Jeanlin, going ahead, was blowing louder than ever.
But suddenly he understood Jeanlin's
gesture.
She pointed at Maheu in the darkness, with a vague, threatening
gesture.
Madame Rasseneur politely offered him a glass, which he refused, with a
gesture.
Scarcely a dozen had gone down, merely Pierron and some sneaks of his sort, whose departure and arrival were gloomily watched without a
gesture
or a threat.
Maheude made a vague, terrified
gesture.
Beside them, in the other tram, Chaval was loudly saying to Father Mouque that the directors had made a mistake in not taking advantage of the opportunity to free the pits of the blackguards who were corrupting them; but the old groom, who had already fallen back into the dog-like resignation of his existence, no longer grew angry over the death of his children, and simply replied by a
gesture
of conciliation.
He made a
gesture
of despair, and gave orders that the mine should be evacuated at once.
And she only made a sweeping
gesture
of impatience and irritation.
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