| 1. | He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | They do not wave their hands or arms about when talking and are almost devoid of gesticulation of any kind. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 3. | But while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down with the humoursome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations but the noise steadily increased. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Beside him sat Uvarov, who with rapid gesticulations was giving him some information, speaking in low tones as they all did. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | Such passionate actions and amorous gesticulations or movements, which arise on the spur of the moment, and during sexual intercourse, cannot be defined, and are as irregular as dreams. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |