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Gesture in sentence

401 examples of Gesture in a sentence

The latter, overwhelmed by this encounter, made a gesture as though to protect the putter, who was pressing herself against him.
He grew weaker, he only had strength to make a little gesture, a slow movement of the hand, to assure himself that she was certainly there, like a sleeping child in her frozen stiffness.
Two days passed; she had not stirred; he touched her with his mechanical gesture, reassured to find her so quiet.
He complained vehemently about being imprisoned in defiance of his civil rights, asked by virtue of which law he was hereby detained, invoked writs of habeas corpus, threatened to press charges against anyone holding him in illegal custody, ranted, gesticulated, shouted, and finally conveyed by an expressive gesture that we were dying of hunger.
Nearly strangled, the steward staggered out at a signal from his superior; but such was the commander's authority aboard his vessel, not one gesture gave away the resentment that this man must have felt toward the Canadian.
A gesture from him brought us to a halt, and however much I wanted to clear this wall, I had to stop.
I could then see our images clearly mirrored on the underside of the waves, but reflected upside down: above us there appeared an identical band that duplicated our every movement and gesture; in short, a perfect likeness of the quartet near which it walked, but with heads down and feet in the air.
Captain Nemo finished his sentence with a vehement gesture.
At least that's what I gathered from their differences in tone and gesture.
And with a sudden gesture, the captain hid his face in his clenched fists, vainly trying to hold back a sob.
With a gesture he ordered us to crouch beside him at the foot of a wide crevice.
So I had gotten used to the sight of this fascinating fishing when all at once, just as the Indian was kneeling on the seafloor, I saw him make a frightened gesture, stand, and gather himself to spring back to the surface of the waves.
At a mere gesture from him, the helmsman would instantly change the Nautilus's heading.
You're aware of the fact that in those days your King Louis XIV thought an imperial gesture would suffice to humble the Pyrenees in the dust, so he inflicted his grandson, the Duke of Anjou, on the Spaniards.
But Captain Nemo came over and stopped me with a gesture.
I answered, with a gesture of utter disbelief.
One gesture from him could obliterate me, a single word shackle me to his vessel!
A meal together, a walk in the evening on the highroad, a gesture of her hands over her hair, the sight of her straw hat hanging from the window-fastener, and many another thing in which Charles had never dreamed of pleasure, now made up the endless round of his happiness.
Leon stopped, pointing with a gesture to his sleeping audience; then they talked in low tones, and their conversation seemed the more sweet to them because it was unheard.
She made a gesture of surprise.
"He!" she said with a gesture of contempt.
Emma's gesture, however, had only been meant for a warning; for Monsieur Lheureux was accompanying them, and spoke now and again as if to enter into the conversation.
He made a gesture of anger and annoyance.
And Rodolphe finished his sentence with a gesture that said, "I could crush him with a flip of my finger."
She knit her brows with a nervous gesture, then went on.
And on a gesture of irritation from Monsieur Bournisien—"Ah! you'll admit that it is not a book to place in the hands of a young girl, and I should be sorry if Athalie—""But it is the Protestants, and not we," cried the other impatiently, "who recommend the Bible."
His large Spanish hat fell at a gesture he made, and immediately the instruments and the singers began the sextet.
"I am really sorry," said Bovary, "about the money which you are—"The other made a careless gesture full of cordiality, and taking his hat said—"It is settled, isn't it?
The old fellow started off again; then, having got back to the chapel of the Virgin, he stretched forth his arm with an all-embracing gesture of demonstration, and, prouder than a country squire showing you his espaliers, went on—"This simple stone covers Pierre de Breze, lord of Varenne and of Brissac, grand marshal of Poitou, and governor of Normandy, who died at the battle of Montlhery on the 16th of July, 1465."
Leon, motionless, looked at her, no longer even attempting to speak a single word, to make a gesture, so discouraged was he at this two-fold obstinacy of gossip and indifference.
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