Sample Sentences for
pantomime
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    He could only pantomime, hoping she would turn his way and see him.  (source)
    pantomime = communicate through gestures and body movements (without words)
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    So I glanced at my wrist watch, brought my hand dramatically to my mouth as though remembering something urgent and important, repeated the pantomime in case anybody had missed it, and with this tacit explanation started briskly back toward the center of the school.  (source)
    pantomime = expression of something through gestures and body movements (without words)
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    They then gestured back to the other Cypress Bay fans, like they were pantomiming, See?  (source)
    pantomiming = expressed with gestures and body movements rather than words
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    And he rubbed his big frog-like hands together as if he were talking of going to a party or a pantomime.  (source)
    pantomime = a performance of something through gestures and body movements without words
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    Then Dad winked at me and pantomimed weeping like a baby.  (source)
    pantomimed = expressed with gestures and body movements rather than words
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    She raised a fluttering hand to her brow and staggered back, pantomiming horror.†  (source)
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    You must have seen it in her pantomimes, you spoke of her rare gift for comedy on the stage that rouses a laughter out of the audience so dear they applaud and applaud and do not want to let her go.†  (source)
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    Phoebe threw down a whole handful of cents, which he picked up with joyless eagerness, handed them over to the Italian for safekeeping, and immediately recommenced a series of pantomimic petitions for more.†  (source)
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    'This is Mr Lenville, who does our first tragedy, Mr Johnson,' said the pantomimist.†  (source)
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    From every street and every corner drove carriages filled with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, screaming, fighting, gesticulating, throwing eggs filled with flour, confetti, nosegays, attacking, with their sarcasms and their missiles, friends and foes, companions and strangers, indiscriminately, and no one took offence, or did anything but laugh.†  (source)
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    I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment.  (source)
    pantomime = gestures and body movements (without words)
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    Delighted at the moon, he pantomimed, "What is it?"  (source)
    pantomimed = expressed through gestures and body movements without words
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    While Mum leapt to and fro, pantomiming fictitious exploits, Sarah and Connor pulled up chairs.†  (source)
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