mime

Example Sentences

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Running her hand through her brittle white hair, she mimed heating water on a gas stove to wash herself in the cold mornings.

From Barron's

“I told her the coyote is like a cute wild dog, and her eyes just went—” He mimes eyes exploding open.

From Literature

She recalled how he enjoyed comedy and music, particularly David Bowie, whose songs he would mime along to.

From BBC

So then, if this is Percy and this is Stack, what they would do is he would go get changed, be Smoke, and we would kind of mime the scene.

From Los Angeles Times

Alicia Washington’s direction was clear, though she was understandably flummoxed about how to stage musician characters who don’t play their instruments and resorted to miming and posing.

From The Wall Street Journal