Example Sentences

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Often, she will mouth words off-microphone, as though singing a private melody to herself.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2023

“The kids will mouth the words about New York but if they meant it they wouldn’t migrate to across the Hudson,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2012

Under old oaks lovers will mouth my verses, and the acorns are not yet shaped from which those oaks will spring.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch