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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

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 ● Dec. 18, 2025

She says she has found a creative outlet in the form of dance, and wants to study dance, mime and physical theatre, but is struggling to find a course she can access.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

Maybe that mime on the beach who nearly drowned.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2024

At the hospital Esther put the Bob Marley cassette on the tape player, and we all began to mime “Three Little Birds” together.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

"Like this," she says, laughing as she mimes the song's signature perfume-spraying move.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

She closes her eyes and mimes her head hitting a pillow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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

Mamita motions to her stomach and mimes eating.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

They wanted candy bars and grabbed them off the shelf and mimed taking bites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

One audience member closed her eyes and mimed conducting as the artists played Mozart, while another tapped her caregiver's arm as if there were piano keys.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026

Standing with one foot on the right peg of his bike in a half-pirouette, Miranda mimed pumping his other foot across the pavement as if propelling a scooter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

One of them mimed reaching up high, as though to grope for something on a shelf, and his companion laughed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Cage asks, repeating the absurd gesture Paul makes of miming drinking wine at a highfalutin dinner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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

The 10-second clip, captioned "when someone asks me how well I did at Eurovision" - ends with the 26-year-old miming "ask me another question".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023

Afterward, we would practice miming the rap songs we had memorized.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah