Once he trod on something he thought a lump of drier mud, and it squirmed weakly under his foot, and a white face twisted round and up, mouthing feeble curses at him.
The officer ran back mouthing unheard angry shouts at them again.
That is according to our religion," said the bandolero simply, as if mouthingan irrefutable answer.
They passed and repassed in her brain in the uncompromising search-light of conscience, like malicious, mouthing imps.
The gaunt horse had taken a step forward and was sniffing at that heap on the ground, mouthing the limp trousers: a few wisps of hay had clung to them.
He is half-fiend and half-idiot, and no good comes of his mouthing and muttering.
For the censure of the world, its meddling and mouthing hypocrisy, I care absolutely nothing; I have long set it at defiance.
Mouthing these words again and again, the parson forced his way through the surge in the wake of the buffalo.
Notice especially "with mouthing words that better wits haue framed, they purchase lands and now Esquiers are made" i.
Carlo; and began to bite his moustache, mouthing and glowering.
Their intentness had deafened them some minutes earlier to a more mouthing note in the thunder of the rain, as if the swell of the tempest had been opened an instant and shut.
They sprang from my inmost bosom, addressed without forethought to that drawling mouthing poet.
The customs of the Seri throw light on the genesis of “re-eating”, for the process would appear to be but an extension of the repeated mouthing and swallowing of tendonous strings still attached to the bones of larger animals.
Down went the waiter, and the Dragon was stooping over him with wet locks like a dripping mermaid, gloating and mouthing upon the ruin.
Since then the Dragon had been marching up and down with threatening weapon and flashing eyes, brandishing her rolling-pin like another Communist, mouthing voiceless words.
The lips that could so aptly form the melodious syllables of the most beautiful of languages were awkward beyond belief at mouthing out the thick words and strangely constructed phrases of the Semitic tongue.
On all sides rose the clamor of rude, Phoenician voices and the mouthing of ungraceful words.
I'll repent when I see you in gaol, you mouthing demagogue!
He spoke in a slightly mouthing way, not well bred in spite of Oxford.
For one hears no sound from all theirmouthing and staring conversation.
She could never get over the feeling that he was mouthing and smiling at her through the glass wall of an aquarium, he being on the watery side.
In an aquarium fish seem to come smiling broadly to the doorway, and there to stand talking to one, in a mouthing fashion, awful to behold.
Mitchell, with a return of his old mouthing importance.
He hurled aside the persistent women, who sought some reassuring word from him, and mouthing rather than speaking a call to his men to follow, he plunged again into the grove path and stumbled toward the ledge entrance.
Mouthing crazily with fury, Rufe leaped backward until his shoulders struck the rigging, and, seizing his cutlas in his left hand, he poised it by the blade for a deadly javelin cast.
The sleepy lake sucked at the mud banks with small mouthing sounds as though it found the taste of the raw mud agreeable.
The manifest agents of the polizia were nearing when Checco ran back, and began mouthing as in retort at something that had been spoken from the cafe as he shot by.
Few of us wish to disturb the mother of a litter of puppies when mouthing a bone in the midst of her young family.
The god, when he resolved to punish the rebellious winds, abstained from mouthing empty threats.
At the door he looked back with his lips pulled down, mouthing a filthy epithet at her.
Billings leveled his big arm at me, mouthing wordlessly for a minute.
He fell into a chair and just sat there mouthing at me and then at the jewels in his hand.
The poet "mouthing out his hollow oes and aes" is, we are told, a good description of Tennyson's tone and manner of reading.
With some little practice Nelly will thus readily, at call, bring her head way round to the saddle-flap, with neck arched, and mouthing her bit.
If she should do so before you release her head, play gently with the rein for an instant to get her back to the soft mouthing of the bit, caress her, and then release her head.
Look at the mouthing mountebanks that walk the boards now!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mouthing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
