gesture - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • goodwill: However as a gesture of goodwill you might want to negotiate with the customer rather than losing them.
  • defiance: Oh the pleasure from such a simple gesture of defiance!
  • self-sacrifice: Campers to put his seat in gesture of self-sacrifice.
  • solidarity: I guess I signed up as a gesture of solidarity.
  • gratitude: It was a gesture of gratitude for her lifelong dedication to the Regiment.

Converse of object

  • imitate: The studies often involve giving them a task, or asking them to imitate a gesture.
  • appreciate: She has no idea who it was, but really appreciated the gesture very much and was greatly touched.

Adjective modifier

  • token: Soldiers ejected over Iraq abuses Dare I say token gesture to make up for below?
  • symbolic: Symbolic gestures, important in their time, no longer build trust.
  • futile: In every sense it was a futile gesture against the government.
  • articulatory: From this movement in turn is derived the articulatory gesture, the utterance relating to the perceived object.
  • expressive: The General spoke very fluently in French, and with many an expressive gesture.
  • magnanimous: However, in a magnanimous gesture the gnome indicated that managers were prepared to go on accepting the credit when teams do well.

Modifies a noun

  • recognition: Uses include tracking a person's eyes and mouth, gesture recognition.

Noun used with modifier

  • parting: In a parting gesture, the Web publisher you fired replaced photos of board members with sheep.
  • hand: You can really truly do magic hand gestures to make your machine go.
  • one-off: As one-off gestures went our 24-hour strike was highly effective even if we couldn't publicize it in our own paper.
  • mouse: Mouse Gestures Allows you to execute many common commands by using a mouse gesture.

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