Robau understood that putting up shields could be interpreted as a hostile gesture.

One of the riflemen took Blade's stare as a hostile gesture.

It neither shrank from his fist nor made any hostile gesture.

It seems a slightly hostile gesture, for visitors are confronted by someone looking down on them as they enter the gallery.

In the body language of the kin, these are hostile gestures.

It didn't look like a hostile gesture to me.

Though no one offered a hostile gesture, I was glad when we left the cultivated land and entered the narrow opening in the cliffs.

The demons made no hostile gesture; they seemed merely to be waiting.

A gift of chocolate was, I believed, a veiled and hostile gesture to make me fat.

That could easily be taken as a hostile gesture.