mouthing

present participle of mouth

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouthing
Verb
  • Miller could be seen bending over and grimacing after the fateful pitch, in an obvious degree of pain.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In the new logo, which the university said was designed in-house, the mascot's grimacing expression is the same, but his fists are down.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He was also heard muttering expletives down the stretch, visibly battling the heat and pressure.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • That Longhorns fan muttering about Nietzsche was right after all.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Irish are 0-1 and staring at an idle weekend with plenty to work on after a 27-24 loss in Miami on the Sunday night of Week 1.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But after weeks of staring at bare ground, a few green shoots pushed through the dark silt.
    Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During the video, the person can be heard mumbling and breathing heavily.
    Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So meagre, my wife, the one sitting next to her, kept mumbling, ‘Is this it?
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • An Indian woman in sports clothes walks past me murmuring an unbroken monologue into her phone.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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