How to Use pantomime in a Sentence

pantomime

1 of 2 noun

• We saw pantomimes at the fair.
• In the game of charades, one player uses pantomime to represent a word or phrase that the other players have to try to guess.
• The Dogman spread his arms in the pantomime of embrace.
  — Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• Some of the abuse at the stadium just seems like pantomime.
  — SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• If the male side of pantomime wrestling is contentious, the world of women’s WWE is even more so.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2023
• The piece is a pantomime both between the two women and of the stodgy form of a lecture itself.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• His pantomime to the Sugar Plum Fairy was a clear and amusing rewind on the battle.
  — Ellen Dunkel, Philly.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• But it’s done in obvious pantomime, with nary a blot of fake blood.
  — Misha Berson, Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• The Four Seasons pantomime will not be the end of the care industry’s troubles.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• Trevor Ariza put in another 3 to push the Rockets' run to a 15-0, two-minute dash, adding a pantomime swim back down the floor.
  — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2017
• This means guys who like to stand around at concerts and do drum pantomime get to swat the people in front of them twice as much.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2020
• Saldaña is still the best at being a Na’vi, with her pantomime cat hisses.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Face painter Laura Kalmakoff and makeup artist Alex Rivera paid homage to old-school pantomimes.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
• All his successful shows have been fables and fairy tales and pageants and pantomimes.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
• Trump said at the time, using his thumb and index finger to pantomime firing a gun.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Scott later learned that this was a pantomime: his grandfather didn’t know how to read.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• Her arms seem very loose, and Yeoh starts to sort of shuffle in her seat — a pantomime of movement that suggests both great purpose and the weight of the world on her back.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2022
• He got drafted from the streets into the church to do pantomime and got into theater during high school.
  — Catherine Annie Hollingsworth, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• The legendary performer was in town for a stop on his tour of the theatrical production of the pantomime Mother Goose.
  — Justine Browning, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Shannon Willing as Bernadette, the deaf cook, speaks volumes through pantomime.
  — Patti Restivo, Laurel Leader, 17 Aug. 2017
• A puffy-eyed, sobbing David Luiz became the pantomime villain that day for is defensive frailty, but the rest of the squad suffered too.
  — Matias Grez and Stef Blendis, CNN, 7 July 2017
• The watch-tap pantomime was meme-ready, but Swift’s words will hopefully result in real change.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2019
• Sometime later, her past life intrudes on the pantomime.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 13 May 2021
• The point of her pantomime seemed to be that even getting bombed was better than being hidden under a burka.
  — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 12 June 2018
• No, there’s an edge of hostility or subversion to irony which isn’t present in the kind of pantomime atmosphere on the Last Night.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
• What ends up entering people is simple—a harmless pantomime of the pathogen.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
• Gelb’s performance, built on metered gesture and pantomime, is a shrewd answer to the trick question of how to embody an icon.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• White pulled up in transition, tucking the ball toward his chin in a pantomime of his shot.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
• The rest of the class quickly grows bored with this whole pantomime.
  — Domenico Starnone, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
• The problem with playing charades is that not all the players are able to decode the pantomime.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025

pantomime

2 of 2 verb

• He pantomimed someone talking on the phone.
• In the stands, filmmaker and Yankees fan Spike Lee pantomimed a call to the bullpen.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• If Tess wants to pantomime breast-feeding while lauding the act, then good for her.
  — Brie Schwartz, Redbook, 28 June 2016
• As Randy pantomimed a whipping, Darryl gave a shriek that must have startled all of Stamford.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• When Booher pantomimes her signature move, the belly bop, a great weight seems to lift from her large, slumping shoulders.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 20 June 2017
• Thompson heard the team will be assigned an interpretor, but she's prepared to pantomime her way through the trip.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2018
• No more pantomiming the signing of a restaurant bill or pretending to scratch your head when the waiters ignore you.
  — Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Hines-Allen shouted toward the ceiling and pantomimed a marksman loading a bow and arrow.
  — Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2018
• First, Wong clutches her face, knocking her red nerd glasses askew and pantomiming the feeling of a great gust of wind drying out her eyeballs.
  — Vogue, 11 May 2018
• Amid smoke and clouds of dust, spectators ran the bases and pantomimed baseball players pitching, batting and sliding.
  — Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
• There are still some prohibitions, including anything that pantomimes the use of a weapon.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• For example, Cogdill might ask applicants to pantomime a scene, such as walking across a frozen pond without skates.
  — Sara Mosle, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
• Colbert held up a clenched hand and appeared to pantomime masturbation.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 19 July 2017
• Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn appears to be pantomiming her puddin'.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Bryce Harper pantomimed a swing, flipped his imaginary bat, pointed to where the home dugout would be and trotted around the bases while the 100 or so Washington fans surrounding the practice field roared.
  — Chuck King, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Mostert celebrates his touchdowns by pantomiming a surfer catching a wave.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• But unlike other classic Harmonix games, which ask you to pantomime your favorite bands, Fuser opens players up to a DJ's unique creation process.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 June 2020
• In 2016, he was punished for removing his helmet in the end zone, and for pantomiming taking a photo of teammate Victor Cruz while Cruz salsa-ed.
  — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• That means receiver Brandin Cooks, now in New England, probably won’t be able to resume his practice of pantomiming an archer who shoots an arrow into the crowd.
  — Sam Farmer, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Still, hosts Ludacris and Vanessa Hudgens pantomimed breathlessness throughout the night.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 May 2017
• But cracks showed as the 81-year-old Berlusconi pantomimed as Salvini read political priorities from a statement, clearly not pleased to be on the sidelines.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• That might be why some studies have found that the J&J shot is especially good at tickling certain types of T cells, which prefer to take their lessons from vaccines that will pantomime infected cells.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
• Public domain Ballroom’s roots reach back to the Antebellum South, when enslaved people would pantomime their masters at dances.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• Wearing an oversized, oven-mitt type apparatus on his right hand, Gibson has been spotted pantomiming his pitching delivery in the bullpen and in the practice cages.
  — Mike Berardino, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2017
• Crossing hands in front of himself to indicate handcuffs, Ahmed, 24, a spiky-haired Somali, pantomimed how German authorities sent him back — not once, but twice — to Italy.
  — Frances D'emilio, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Throughout, Clark leaned into the mic, pantomiming the lyrics in her arm-length black gloves and cadet cap.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2025
• Are the bees, in fact, pantomiming the way itself?
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
• The former Colorado standout pantomimed answers to reporters in the locker room.
  — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• Putin pantomimed not being able to hear the question and shrugged.
  — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
• Walking back to our site, Casper pantomimed catching a trout.
  — AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025