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His timing is spot on, exaggerating players’ embouchures of the wind instruments he fakes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2017

Some of those refugees settled between the embouchures of the Ural River, others near the mouth of the Don.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John

Meanwhile, it acts upon the river's trunk as did the sea of old upon its embouchures, blocking it up and converting the land around it to the condition of a swamp.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

In a few scattered places there are deep, precipitous ravines, opening to the sea, whose embouchures form difficult but still possible landing-places for the fishermen.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

The deltoid outlet is confined to the tributaries, nearly all of them, like "the disembogning Nile," emptying themselves by innumerable embouchures.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James