mime

Example Sentences

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She recalled how he enjoyed comedy and music, particularly David Bowie, whose songs he would mime along to.

From BBC

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

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

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

Whereupon Alexander mimed the death of the very last dodo, and a tragic, squawking death it was.

From Literature