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- noun Plural form of
mime . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mime .
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Examples
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Performance artists are what you call mimes who can't shut up and lack the spatial awareness to form invisible boxes.
Cracked: All Posts Robert Brockway 2010
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Performance artists are what you call mimes who can't shut up and lack the spatial awareness to form invisible boxes.
Cracked: All Posts Robert Brockway 2010
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Furthermore, every scene involving mimes is so embarrassing that it makes me wince just writing about them (I don’t know if they’re true mimes, since true mimes don’t talk.
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Furthermore, every scene involving mimes is so embarrassing that it makes me wince just writing about them (I don’t know if they’re true mimes, since true mimes don’t talk.
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The mimes were a still greater improvement, in which a certain amount of amusing narrative was illustrated by dances, songs, contortions, and as the name implies by mimicry.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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I stay really careful when the result is good, because I wait, always: "It's coming … coming … coming … coming …"'He mimes a karate chop into his neck, to represent the sudden turn of fortune, the cruel twist of fate, the ever-present potential for unfairness that can make football so tantalising, so infuriating, so mesmerising.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Customers -- such as mimes, pirates, beach bums, preppies and bodybuilders -- each have their own personality traits.
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The "mimes" are men, created in the image of God, and are represented as the "mere puppets" of circumstance.
Poets of the South 1891
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Scattered tales we have: "mimes" and other things there are some, and may have been more.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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The songs of Stesichorus, a minstrel of the early period, and the little rural 'mimes' or interludes of Sophron are lost, and we have only fragments of Epicharmus.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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