mime
Example Sentences
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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
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
He rates a podcaster below “movies, TV, recording artist, radio personality, mime and organ grinder monkey.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024
Maybe that mime on the beach who nearly drowned.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024
Sometimes he would mime the shooting of a bow and slip soundlessly away into the forest, and she would know he’d spotted quarry between the tree trunks.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Vocabulary lists containing mime
Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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Theater - High School
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