I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
artist
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This area is always full of interest: mime artists , solo guitarists and full-blown jazz bands entertain the passing public.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clark is wonderful in the role, which is mostly mime and dance.
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One performer did a silly mime during the overture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her authoritative performance made the superb mime and rhythms invigorating to watch.
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I peer through the window to the side of the door and a mime is in progress, a woman energetically vacuuming.
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There was mime and a resolutely modern organ piece one evening, between announcements and prayers.
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They suggest approaching the average and below-average children through mime , dance and personal composition.
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This mime of his never failed to invoke my deep defensiveness with regard to all things Kip.
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We expect reality but mime is not bound by such limitations.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They mimed a tug of war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chutra and Koju mimed their technique.
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Every derangement of the page-space deftly mimes the current derangement of the house-space in the narrative.
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Everywhere he went running, running, running; and on the spot he mimed it.
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I mimed that this was not necessary but he insisted.
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Langford is pointing at him, his face in profile miming shock-horror: a lost joke.
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Phagu mimed back that we had no choice.
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Soundlessly she mimed picking up a phone and speaking into it.