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Example sentences for "mouths"

Lexicographically close words:
mouthing; mouthings; mouthparts; mouthpiece; mouthpieces; moutons; mouty; mouvement; mouvements; movable
  1. Nipa jungles bristled at the mouths of rivers, and the valleys were verdant with dense mango copses.

  2. The chiefs were chewing cinnamon and betel till their mouths were red.

  3. Labour must therefore be light; still it would suffice to dig up the boulders from the main thoroughfares, to clean the suburbs, and to open the mouths of the fetid and poisonous lagoons.

  4. Usually the stream mouths by an ugly little bar at some distance from the roadstead; after heavy rains it bursts the sand-strip and discharges in straight line.

  5. A space has been cleared on the level of the trams uniting the mouths of the tunnel, and here will be placed the 'elephant-stamps' actually on their way out.

  6. Zuinglius rose and delivered a speech, which closed the mouths of his adversaries.

  7. The counsel of the wicked has beset you, they have opened their mouths upon you like roaring lions.

  8. While if we compare the words which Moliere puts into the mouths of those who revile the miser, they suggest the taunts thrown at Shylock.

  9. Whatever information Shakespeare wished the audience to have on these matters, he put into the mouths of his characters, and he expected the audience to accept it without any questioning or further illustration by actual presentation.

  10. If the amusement consisted in putting into the mouths of the clowns "unsavoury morsels of unseemly sentences," the teaching consisted in making folly appear ridiculous and vice odious.

  11. Conspicuously Angela attached herself to Tomlinson-Thorpe, regardless of the gaping eyes and mouths of neighbours, Puritan to the backbone in everything except the stealing of unbranded calves.

  12. The girls giggled nervously; the boys grinned; several opened their mouths to sing, but closed them again as Alethea-Belle descended from the rostrum and approached the rebels.

  13. They have often told me that at first we seemed to them very ugly with hair both upon our mouths and head; but gradually they have become accustomed to it, and now we are beginning to look less deformed.

  14. It was none too soon, for with so many mouths to feed, the place began to be threatened with famine.

  15. O hands and mouths that I love, and faces fair exceedingly.

  16. But she could not keep away from the dress for long, and returned to feast her eyes upon it, the two children standing beside her, sprouting out of their rubber boots, with eyes and mouths round and protruding.

  17. In their long feelers, extending from their mouths were strong wire cutters, and in their front arms they carried rifles and spears.

  18. The lines of the faces were badly wrinkled, the mouths were contorted and there was a smirk of evil stamped over them.

  19. They had stuck them in their mouths and had lighted them.

  20. They had their mouths crammed full of dried grass, which they carried into their nests through crannies--putting away hay for the winter!

  21. Scouts, no matter where they are, should brush their teeth well with tooth powder every morning at least; and should keep them free from particles of food, and should wash their mouths with a dental antiseptic to kill microbes.

  22. They acted as if their mouths might taste bad, after the pipes.

  23. He divined with a sort of pride what all the mouths were whispering, what all the eyes were saying, fixed absent-mindedly on the canvases only to turn toward him.

  24. English lives were lost in the kidnapping raids, from poisoned arrows, it was thought, the wounded dying "in strange sort with their mouths shut some ten days before they died, and after their wounds were whole.

  25. The other contemporary Byzantine historian, Nicephorus Gregoras, says that the pestilence began among the Scythians in the Crimea and at the mouths of the Don.

  26. They were prodded and felt like dogs at a show; their breathing and heart action were carefully listened to; their mouths were opened and their teeth inspected as if they were horses offered for sale.

  27. The circle around him was shifting uncertainly, and peculiar sounds were coming out of the brutes' twisting mouths as he bent again over their fellow on the floor.

  28. Full-lipped, sensual mouths and pendulous cheeks merged into the great fat rolls of their chins.

  29. Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

  30. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.

  31. Nothing outside the screen penetrates to him save through the mouths of these.

  32. Yet from mouths of fools sometimes come words of wisdom.

  33. Under this denomination is comprised part of the coast of Louisiana to the west of the mouths of the Mississippi, comprehended between Bastien bay on the east, and the mouths of the river or bayou la Fourche on the west.

  34. Patrick, and similar prophecies are put in the mouths of Fionn and others, just as Montezuma's priests foretold the coming of the Spaniards.

  35. Such boasts are put into the mouths of the Irish Amairgen and the Welsh Taliesin.

  36. When favorite ewes, that have been kept for breeding, begin to lose condition, at six or seven years old, their mouths should be carefully examined.

  37. Their tongues are said to loll out of their mouths "one palm-length.

  38. We may have dropped into a den of outlaws on a gigantic scale, and it may be necessary to put us out of the way to keep our mouths closed.

  39. The pink light on the mirror faded, and a life-like reflection appeared--the reflection of a young man standing on a rock in bold relief against a dark background of rugged, slabbering cliffs and the forbidding mouths of caves.

  40. They were pouring a doughy white paste into huge buckets that carried it aloft, where it vanished into the mouths of tubes that seemed to replace the scaffolding along the Platform's sides.

  41. So Joe and Sally saw the pushpots in a new aspect: blunt metal slugs with gaping mouths which were their air scoops.

  42. Absorbed and often with their mouths full, frequently with imperfect articulation, but with deepening satisfaction as the steaks vanished and the method they'd use took form in their minds.

  43. There were mixing trucks still pouring out their white paste for the lining of the rocket tubes, and their product went up and vanished into the gaping mouths of the giant wire-wound pipes.

  44. He was one of those conscientious people who think that if they keep their mouths shut it will make up for their inability to keep their eyes open.

  45. I'm their foreman, and I can make them keep their mouths shut.

  46. Even as wisdom sometimes falls from the mouths of babes, so do good ideas occasionally spring from careless sarcasm.

  47. You would pick cents off'm, a dead man's eyes, and bread out of the mouths of infants.

  48. I wish I may never hear from other mouths how ye got it.

  49. For their mouths were open, and they were breathing hard.

  50. When this was cried by the bellman through the streets of Tergou, a thousand mouths opened, and one heart beat--Gerard's.

  51. The coroner's quests we have still, and these would bring goodly profit, but the meat is aye gone ere the mouths be full.

  52. But her worst failure was, when she urged that there were now but two mouths to feed: and one care the less.

  53. You must stop their mouths with meat and wine.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mouths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.