How to Use mouth in a Sentence

mouth

1 of 2 noun

• I burned the roof of my mouth.
• He kissed her on the mouth.
• The smell of the food made my mouth water.
• He threatened to punch me in the mouth.
• The candy melts in your mouth.
• She stood there with her mouth agape.
• They told him to keep his mouth closed when chewing and not to talk with his mouth full.
• She regretted saying it as soon as the words were out of her mouth.
• He wiped his mouth with a napkin after eating.
• The medication is taken by mouth.
• Someone in the crowd took the gun from him and shot him in the mouth.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• But back in the Mesozoic, toothed little mouths were the norm.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• That kind of put a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 May 2023
• The kinds who spend 90% of their time on the floor and/or with their fingers in their mouths and/or noses?
  — Liz Krieger, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2023
• One deputy then placed a gun in Jenkins' mouth and fired, the men say.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• The heckling, the chasing, the learning how to read and fight and use our mouths as weapons.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• Sores had opened on my fingers and in the corners of my mouth.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The result is a crunchy dessert on the outside that turns your whole mouth black.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Place a single cherry on top of the mouth of the bottle.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2023
• Turn a crank and the man groaned and waved one arm over his mouth while the animal growled.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• A couple of months ago, Steve grabbed my face with both hands and kissed me full on the mouth.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• They are placed on either side of the mouth so that the balls pinch the inner and outer cheeks.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• People put the song in the mouths of everyone from Kermit the Frog to Mario.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The man gulped the water down and wiped his mouth with his handkerchief.
  — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Jenkins was also shot in the mouth by Elward, per the DOJ.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• The shark mouth design and peek-a-boo tunnel below the slide add to the water park feel.
  — Jayla Andrulonis, Parents, 18 June 2023
• By 2019, the forests had been cleared almost to the mouth of that cave—and just a few hundred bats remained.
  — Kate Evans, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2023
• And apparently left a sour taste in the head coach’s mouth.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2024
• The virus can also be spread from secretions in the mouth and nose, Frenck said.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• The rough mouths of species like bass will take their toll on the bucktail, and lead dumbbell eyes get chipped and mashed.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024

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mouth

2 of 2 verb

• She was just mouthing the usual meaningless platitudes about the need for reform.
• In the second row, Katherine waved her arms and mouthed the words to the song.
  — Samantha Max, Hoy, 7 June 2017
• Marta clapped her hands and mouthed the words with a wide smile.
  — Alicia Delgallo, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 June 2017
• The smaller males care for the eggs, fanning them and mouthing them to clean them.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 9 July 2019
• His peers are out there right now bad-mouthing the Bearcats.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• Hannah turned up the volume, dropped down on the couch and mouthed the words.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• At times during the show, the actor mouthed the words to the music playing on the soundtrack.
  — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 12 July 2017
• How about the Kansas coach mouthing expletives at the OU team?
  — Hunter Cooke, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
• Meryl Streep used very poor judgment in mouthing off against Trump.
  — Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2017
• Won’t mouth about bad play calls or simply stare at his boss.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
• Some of them would just stand there and mouth the words, beer delivery.
  — David Lahuta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2020
• Fish will be moving slowly and may mouth it, then spit it out and swim off.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
• At the end of their caucus forum, McCready mouthed something to Cano as the two shook hands.
  — Jim Morrill, charlotteobserver, 6 Apr. 2018
• In the video, the fish responds to commands by moving its head forward and mouthing along as Alexa speaks.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2016
• Then Gingrich had wasted no time in bad-mouthing the deal.
  — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
• Who is speaking the truth, and on what basis, and who is merely mouthing what people want to hear?
  — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
• The video opened with a sultry Fox lying in bed next to the rapper and mouthing the words to the song while he is tied up with pink duct tape over his mouth.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Liberal viewers think Lake has mouthed off enough and needs to go.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 24 July 2019
• For months, Trump and his allies bad-mouthed her to Zelenskiy and others in Kyiv.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2019
• No need to bring up the months of poor-mouthing about a $20 million deficit for next year — followed by fat raises to city workers.
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Oct. 2017
• Imagine being in a session and bad-mouthing your friend, or boss, or teammate.
  — SELF, 24 Jan. 2019
• David spent his time bad-mouthing Jordan, while Jordan spent his time claiming that David was just a liar.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 26 June 2018
• The bad-mouthing of Washington in the national media is not helping.
  — Robert McCartney, Washington Post, 25 May 2017
• Buhler quietly mouthed their names along with him, like a dad at a spelling bee.
  — Andrew Blum, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• Together, they dance, mouthing the words to the song, their necks and shoulders heaped with leis from their students and admirers.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2017
• The study found 18% of the posts showed a monk seal responding to some type of disturbance by looking, moving away, or mouthing or barking.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• There were lucrative onstage reunion shows, brimming with fans who mouthed all the lines.
  — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• There was name-calling at Marshall; their center [mouthed] racial epithets on the floor.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Other aides frequently bad-mouthed her to the president.
  — Josh Dawsey, courant.com, 25 May 2018
• Bad press and bad-mouthing from politicians isn’t helping, analysts say.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024