Example Sentences

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We watch on the monitors as Bruccoleri perfectly mimes the piano along to a track and unleashes out-of-tune vocals that are horribly dour.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Others dressed as mimes with frowns painted on their faces.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

This is a subtler gesture than a few of the show's droller tourist traps, some of them macabre, and some stereotypical to the brink of begging you to scan the background for mimes in berets.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

In a small pile of sand, Galván falls to his knees and mimes digging himself out with a toy shovel, before donning those pink rubber boots for another sonic experiment.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

On the weekends, it was filled with roller skaters and Frisbee players and jugglers and mimes with their faces painted white.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls