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Example sentences for "slight gesture"

  • I opened my lips to ask him a question, when he stopped me by a slight gesture of his hand.

  • I was about to compliment him on the grandeur and force of his poetical fancy, when he stopped me by a slight gesture of his hand.

  • Thank the friend who stands beside you," returned Heliobas, in the same low tone, with a slight gesture towards me.

  • Manuel, with a slight gesture backward to the sombre portals they had just passed, "And he will never come!

  • The Cardinal opened his lips to speak, but Manuel stayed him by a slight gesture.

  • She kissed the bird's soft head, and still stroking it scattered all the others around her by a slight gesture, and went, followed by a snowy cloud of them, through the archway into the garden beyond.

  • The girl gave a slight gesture of indifference and moved away slowly and listlessly, as though fatigued by the mere effort of speech.

  • Six days," answered the girl; and again the numeral was accompanied by a slight gesture of her fingers.

  • He made a slight gesture as of one indicating the obvious, and turned away.

  • Maud made a slight gesture as though she would withdraw herself, and then the comfort of that motherly arm overcame her shyness.

  • She made a slight gesture of protest, and then very suddenly, as if compelled, she raised her eyes fully to his.

  • Maud sat down beside his sofa with a slight gesture of weariness.

  • Don Agostino made a slight gesture, whether of impatience Silvio could not quite be sure.

  • The Abbe Roux checked the porter's garrulity with a slight gesture, and appeared to take but little interest in the matter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ethical principles; know very; make themselves; never like; really think; slight change; slight depression; slight excess; slight frown; slight laugh; slight noise; slight notch; slight pause; slight resemblance; slight smile; slight touch; slightly beaten; slightly convex; slightly flattened; slightly more; slightly salted; slightly tapering; speak calmly; spoke with; taking hold; well worth