MOUTH in a Sentence

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For MOUTH, below is one of 333 sentences:
He got his face down close to hers, with his ear to her mouth, and in the darkness he saw her eyes open and heard her say his name.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOUTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mouth
 n.  the opening through which to take in food
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her tone was so sweet that he took the pipe from his mouth and drew his chair up to the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  Once he found her mouth again, and they seemed to be by the pond together in the burning August sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  He leaned back and drew her mouth to his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  He got his face down close to hers, with his ear to her mouth, and in the darkness he saw her eyes open and heard her say his name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  Scarlett made a mouth of bored impatience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Ellen's tired mouth smiled into the tumult as she addressed herself first to her husband, as a wife should.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Mammy stood beside the table, watching every forkful that traveled from plate to mouth, as though she intended to force the food down Ellen's throat should she see signs of flagging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  Scarlett sopped the wheat cake in the gravy and put it in her mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  He sat clutching her hand, his mouth wide open.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  He stuttered several times, closed his mouth and opened it again, and again became geranium colored.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Melanie and Charles, who were on excellent terms with their uncle, had frequently offered to relieve her of this ordeal, but Pitty always set her babyish mouth firmly and refused.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (123 in 9 pages)
16  A close mouth catches no flies.
17  He tried to suppress a smile but felt the corner of his mouth twitch.
18  Blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth.
19  A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.
20  A wry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
21  Cover your mouth when you cough.
22  Deep love person hide the heart does not hang mouth.
23  Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
24  Taking pills is easy; just put them in your mouth and swallow.
25  Diseases enter by the mouth.
26  Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
27  Finally, you opened its mouth before I put a hand.
28  Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
29  When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
30  I stuck my foot in my mouth.