"gesture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When Laura had finished, Clenwick laid his left arm around the girl's shoulders in a protective, fatherly gesture.
- Fortunately, his wife and child quickly take off for parts unknown, since this is one actor who should avoid kindly, fatherly gestures.
- The captain stared at him, and then shook his head-it was a fatherly gesture, somehow.
- The fatherly gesture that never failed.
- He leaned over to kiss her forehead in a fatherly gesture.
- He reached down, and in a gesture almost fatherly, ruffled the hair of the soldier kneeling before him.
- Holt put his arm around her in a fatherly gesture.
- He gave a fatherly gesture, softly grabbing Jeter's neck.
- He cries at the end of the play over Barnwell's death, a fatherly gesture.
- His two big, hard hands rested on Conway's shoulders in an oddly fatherly gesture.
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