down in the mouth
Example Sentences
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Food is only mechanically broken down in the mouth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
He said he finds that population “kind of down in the mouth as a way that’s unique to New Orleans.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2020
And I think Merton essentially was too humorous and too complete a man to have been down in the mouth about his sins all the time.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019
You don’t poke a tiger with a pointed stick, even if it does look a bit down in the mouth.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2015
She was very down in the mouth at the thought of losing Camilla to London, England.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
