He gulped down a glassful of the wine; he ate with great mouthfuls in the ravenous call of healthy, exhausted tissues, while the maid stood by to cut more bread.
We released him there, and he staggered to his feet, shook himself thoroughly, and followed the team to the camp, ravenously snatching mouthfuls of grass as he went along.
The man was only a few yards below them; they could hear the working of his jaws, the smacking of his lips, his grunts of appreciation; between the mouthfuls any movement they might make would assuredly be heard by him.
At Bob's orders Ah-Sam hurriedly prepared some food, but after one or two mouthfuls Kobo refused to take any more.
Not until all of his companions had drunk, and swallowed a few mouthfuls of the barley-gruel, did Jim himself partake of anything.
Sailor Bill declared that the brief time in which he was employed in consuming the few mouthfuls allowed him was a moment of enjoyment that repaid him for all the sufferings of the day.
She swallowed great mouthfuls of food greedily, silently, ravenously; she ate so fast that once or twice she was in danger of choking.
She had swallowed one or two mouthfuls and already felt better for the nourishment, when her eye fell on a girl seated nearly opposite to her, whom she had not noticed before.
Mr Bodkin's jerky mouthfuls passed in the inn for nimble elocution, his metaphors for the delicious slang of an old and experienced rake.
The contents of the third floor were to be judged from a show-case fixed on the wall in which whole mouthfuls of false teeth were symmetrically arranged.
I keep telling him not to eat like a pig; and for about four mouthfuls he doesn't.
The hungry child ate the first two mouthfuls ravenously; then she paused to break off a piece and give it to the Lump.
For instance, long intervals between bites are of no special benefit if mouthfuls of food are washed down by swallows of water.
It should be given from the point of a spoon placed at right angles to the lips, and plenty of time between mouthfuls should be allowed.
No, don't make me eat any more, for the mouthfuls fall like lumps of lead into my stomach.
This frugal repast having been washed down by a few mouthfulsof water, I resumed my meditations of the previous night.
Nelly had eaten only a fewmouthfuls of her bread and milk when there was a general rush from all the tables, and the room was emptied in a minute.
I tell you, you are bolting down mouthfuls from a dead Happar’s carcass, as sure as you live, and no mistake!
Soon my poor comrade showed signs of animation, and I succeeded in making him swallow from a cocoa-nut shell a few mouthfuls of water.
I swallowed a few mouthfuls of food and fell asleep soon afterward.
I had eaten hardly anything for days, and only a few mouthfuls since morning.
Six mouthfuls each: they were well-flavoured; but their size displeased my eye, and I swallowed but one, and came to bed.
Swallowed two mouthfuls of bread, and away to church.
Was only dressed in time to swallow two mouthfuls of breakfast, and get ready for church.
He had eaten a few mouthfuls of bread, and felt stronger; and by the time the tents were pitched, and the bivouac fires lighted, he was able to stand.
My abdomen heaved frankly, and I gulped down mighty mouthfuls of air.
And, in his indignation, his Eminence swallowed several mouthfuls of strawberry-cream.
Others, again, after partaking of a few mouthfuls of food, go on making up their fires, not only to keep themselves awake, but also to help the work forward and earn their money for the shift.
He chewed half an ounce of tobacco at a time, and spat great mouthfuls of the juice about everywhere.
The ordeal is to eat one of the bitter apples in big mouthfuls without making a single face.
He, and he alone, passed the ordeal, munching those dreadful mouthfuls without so much as a change of expression on his countenance, while the facial contortions the rest of us went through baffled description.
Sometimes she rooted in the ground for sprouting acorns, or nipped off mouthfulsof tender grass.
With their noses close to the ground they hunted till they found a few mouthfuls to eat.
We will give the beasts water here, and let them eat a few mouthfuls of grass.
Following the example of his host, Stephens broke off a piece of tortilla, formed it into a scoop, and dipping up mouthfuls of the two messes alternately, thus consumed both bread and meat together.
I could only manage to get up a few mouthfuls of dirty water, and my horse was trying to get in on top of me.
The camels, on the contrary, could take large and evidently agreeable mouthfuls of the leaves of the great bushes of the Leguminosae, which abounded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mouthfuls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
