PANTOMIME in a Sentence

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For PANTOMIME, below is one of 12 sentences:
He was then bound and fastened to the body of the sapling, on whose branches Magua had acted the pantomime of the falling Huron.

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 Meanings and Examples of PANTOMIME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pantomime
 n.  communication by means of gesture and facial expression
Classic Sentence:
1  By this time they had passed beyond Frome's earshot and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes as they continued to move along the crest of the slope above him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
3  He was then bound and fastened to the body of the sapling, on whose branches Magua had acted the pantomime of the falling Huron.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
4  And when two constabulary men had come into sight round a bend in the gloomy road he had broken off his prayer to whistle loudly an air from the last pantomime.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Freddy Malins said there was a Negro chieftain singing in the second part of the Gaiety pantomime who had one of the finest tenor voices he had ever heard.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
6  Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
7  All that Grimaud gained by this momentary pantomime was to pass from the rear guard to the vanguard.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
8  A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVII
Example Sentence:
1  A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognize the pantomime of a marriage.
2  Because he worked in pantomime, the clown could be understood wherever he appeared.
3  He has also appeared in pantomime.