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These actors don’t mime making music, as is often the case in revivals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

In addition to co-writing the play with Marshall Pailet, Slater portrayed mime artist Marcel Marceau.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

During live shoots, however, background actors stay silent and mime their conversations, “a skill set in and of itself,” Gemmill says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In the late 1980s, Ms Lloyd was studying at a school of mime in London where she befriended magician Jenny Winstanley.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025

I look like I’m about to go to a mime convention.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

As Kingsley tells the story, he mimes methodically making his way through the enormous volume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

In a scene in “Viet Rock,” one actor mimes being hit by gunfire and the others catch him.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Unlike Western cities, Tiwanaku had no markets—no bazaars full of shouting, bargaining, conniving entrepreneurs; no street displays of produce, pottery, and plonk; no jugglers and mimes trying to attract crowds; no pickpockets.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Then he handed it to Goncalves, who mimed drinking from the ball before spiking it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He mimed falling asleep at the question and said he hadn’t heard about it.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026

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 ● Jan. 28, 2026

He pretended his group were teenagers from Chester, who mimed along to the video for the song.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025

I mimed the reporter’s self-satisfied tone and fanned myself with an imaginary notebook.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

“It’s called butterfly effect. Epstein was the first domino,” he says, miming dominoes falling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026

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 ● Dec. 9, 2025

Ah yes, you have a policy of never miming.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024

Ward lobbed one up for receiver Kyle Williams, who beat cornerback Travis Hunter so thoroughly that he immediately held up his wrist, miming CU quarterback Shedeur Sanders’ signature celebration.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023

I heard some laughter from the audience and realized that Luke had wriggled to the front and was miming the words to the song.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter