mime
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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
Yet, these supposedly most-promising stars are mostly hapless wannabes leaning on their skills in nunchucks and mime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
She recalled how he enjoyed comedy and music, particularly David Bowie, whose songs he would mime along to.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
Maybe that mime on the beach who nearly drowned.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2024
I mime throwing the rock, and it jolts a little.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
The next day I woke up and I thought” — he mimes wadding up a piece of paper and tossing it away — ‘That’s never going to happen.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
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 small pile of sand, Galván falls to his knees and mimes digging himself out with a toy shovel, before donning those pink rubber boots for another sonic experiment.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
On the weekends, it was filled with roller skaters and Frisbee players and jugglers and mimes with their faces painted white.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
After a couple of successful kicks, Matsuzawa even mimed a swing from another spectacular Japanese athlete who wears No. 17: Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
He pretended his group were teenagers from Chester, who mimed along to the video for the song.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
He mimed running a hand along the top of a door.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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
Shannon: It was all, like, miming, opening refrigerators, taking a drink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
“I saw Malfoy miming something to do with a nose,” he said darkly.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing mime
Theater - Introductory
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