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History, Kashuv had mouthed off to the teacher and gotten an F, he would never have gotten into Harvard in the first place, no matter how much he’d learned and changed since then.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2019

A jerk of her head, and he had mouthed at the air two inches from her face.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

And then she had mouthed and minced, with ever so false a gentility, her consistent, her sickening conclusion.

From The Finer Grain by James, Henry

How often he had mouthed in jest that sorry proverb about the lack of money being the root of all evil!

From Command by McFee, William