"gesture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To make this small, perhaps futile gesture, to try to put things right somehow.
- And to prevent him from making one last futile gesture.
- It is a small, largely futile gesture, but one that almost everyone makes.
- I saw Del make the same futile gestures, and then she stood very still.
- It was a futile gesture, but one that had to be made.
- How far were we willing to go to act out what was, in the end, nothing but a futile gesture?
- But it wouldn't happen - her father was not a man for futile gestures.
- I brought my hands up to stop the sword, a futile gesture.
- On its face, the resolution may seem a futile gesture.
- But he wondered whether it would be a futile gesture on his part.
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