1.   He raised his voice and stabbed the air with his pen.

2.   He was stabbing the air with his yellowed fingers.

3.   They banged tables and a little old professor would shout and stab the air with his cigar.

4.   A man with unfashionably long hair -- it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days, Loretta guessed -- was stabbing the air with his fork.

5.   The head coach was shouting instructions, stabbing the air with his index finger.

6.   The president, striking a combative stance, stabbed the air with his hands to punctuate his remarks and repeatedly evoked thunderous applause and cheers from the audience.

7.   Asked by the prosecutor to demonstrate how her husband was slain, Mrs. Chivers raised the hunting knife from the exhibits table and stabbed the air.

8.   He stabs the air for emphasis.

9.   His voice booming, Lewis stabbed the air with a finger as he stood just two paces in front of Bush, who sat front and center.

10.   His voice booming, Lewis stabbed the air with a finger as he stood just two paces in front of Bush.