How to Use pantomime in a Sentence

pantomime

1 of 2 noun
Definition of pantomimenext
Synonyms for pantomimenext
  • 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
  • Game after game, Parker would watch his Spurs teammate do the same pantomime on the sidelines during timeouts.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Was this going to be Rocky Horror — the closest thing Americans have to pantomime — without the crucial fun of being able to yell along and throw toast?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But Sternberg plays out a Cold War pantomime that parallels the hot war of male–female relations.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 June 2022
  • The drums are locked in an easy rhythm here, giving us time to mull the possibilities, but then the horns start bleating in weird places and Le Bon decides to warp and curl her melodies in pantomime.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
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pantomime

2 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • Carol (Melissa McBride) routinely pantomimes helplessness in front of strangers to avoid conflict, despite having a blackbelt in badass.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Why not offer an instruction or training sequence that asks players to pantomime certain moves, then display a checkmark and play a pleasant tone upon doing it right two or three times?
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
  • Ever the prankster, Jonathan could be seen pantomiming along with Calhoun’s non-verbal communications.
    — Chris Brodeur, courant.com, 10 May 2018
  • For every new round with Paula, Plaza burns a hole into the deck with her intent gaze, only occasionally breaking her concentration to pantomime in my direction.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Marie Claire, 13 June 2018
  • Gratitude Researchers believe that that the orangutans can also pantomime stories to reminisce.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
  • Despite the fatigue, Glesing even hopped from his driver’s seat to pantomime proper coverage for the defensive backs on Tuesday before challenging the defensive unit after a broken play.
    — Kyle Williams, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2017

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