"gesture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

gesture sustantivo

sustantivo + gesture
Kolokacji: 21
hand gesture • gesture of goodwill • arm gesture • good-will gesture • gesture of will • ...
gesture + verbo
Kolokacji: 28
gesture makes • gesture seems • gesture indicates • gesture means • gesture comes • ...
(2) seem, look, appear
Kolokacji: 3
1. gesture seems = gest wydaje się gesture seems
2. gesture looks = gest patrzy gesture looks
  • He made a small helpless gesture, picked up his empty glass, looked into it.
  • In the bigger pictures, these same gestures can look diminished.
  • He wanted to see how the thin man's grand gesture would look after his dead horse fell on him.
  • Historians do not know exactly what the gesture looked like.
  • The appropriate social context for use can vary greatly from one country to the other, though the gesture might look similar.
  • The gesture looked totally normal as he pulled it off his left side.
  • On most women that gesture would have looked young and calculated at the same time.
  • Her hand lingered briefly in his before they sat down, but the gesture looked natural.
  • My gestures would have looked odd to anyone, but she never asked what I was doing.
  • The gesture looked familiar, but I didn't re- member having seen him do it before.
3. gesture appears = gest pojawia się gesture appears
verbo + gesture
Kolokacji: 25
use gestures • spread in a gesture • make a gesture • lift in a gesture • follow one's gesture • ...
adjetivo + gesture
Kolokacji: 278
small gesture • symbolic gesture • grand gesture • obscene gesture • sweeping gesture • dramatic gesture • quick gesture • ...
preposición + gesture
Kolokacji: 13
of gestures • at one's gesture • to gesture • by gesture • for gestures • ...

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