How To Use Mincing In A Sentence
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He spent his early life courting disapproval, mincing down the corridors in front of the religious brothers to avoid conforming.
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So does the big mincing machine: not onstage for long, but long enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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“For tear-free chopping, mincing, dicing, slicing—fear no onion,” reads the packaging for RSVP Onion Goggles shown, whose antifog lenses and foam seal are designed to protect your eyes from irritating onion vapors.
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Your gait takes on a personality instead of being a generic little mincing thing that diminishes you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Xisithrus says: someone’s talking like a mincing sodomite - = p5 = - interesting choice of words mr emiction.
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The garlic then pops free of the skin, the root end can be cut or broken off easily, and the clove is pre-flattened for convenient mincing.
They come at the age's most uncertain hours and sing an american tune
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A small, dark man, dapper and debonair, swallow-tailed and top-hatted, was waltzing about the stage with dainty, mincing steps, and in a thin little voice singing something or other about somebody or something evidently pathetic.
Amateur Night
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Of the mincing laughingstock or the brisk excise defrauder, no sign whatsoever.
Morgan’s Run
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Frankly, I ain't built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
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Finely chop 200g of steak – it should be as fine as you can chop it without actually mincing it – then add in 40g of finely chopped shallot, 40g of finely chopped cornichon, 2 tsp capers, 3 tsp of Worcestershire sauce, 6 drops of Tabasco, a little salt, black pepper and then stir carefully.
Nigel Slater's classic steak tartare
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Echo soon returned mincing over the gravel, holding her footprinted parchment, saying, ‘Wow!’
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The word mincing has appeared in 19 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 21 in the theater review Reaching Deep Into a
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This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away.
To Build A Fire
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His statements are little more than thinly disguised, professional word mincing crafted to ensure black church voters were not alarmed by his over-the-top support of homosexual rights.
Gay Christian Movement Watch
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Throwing diplomacy to the winds, I asked Nina to translate exactly what I was saying, without mincing words.
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The cutesy, mincing vocals are dotted with ill-advised wailing and occasional outright mimicry of dudes like Beck.
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Mincing up to the two new boys on the team and asking, ‘Have you killed before?’ might seem a little abrupt.
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Which is apparently why, on a chilly autumnal afternoon, I am mincing through a dappled forest clearing with no shoes or socks on.
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Do NOT waste time and energy in mincing word armies with those who are sent to boggle our minds and torment our ‘spirit (s) †™ because as I said, there is absolutely NO chance of changing these folks minds, they are sad but true, brain dead.
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The mad cuckoo behind the little door could not resist casting a shadow upon the virility of his enemy, just as the cuckoo astonishingly characterized those who demonstrated against the war in New York, October 1965, as "epicene" and "mincing" slobs, thus slyly assigning to sodom’s banner such unlikely recruits as I.F. Stone, Ossie Davis, and Father Philip Berrigan.
R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
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Without mincing words, I am afraid he is living in cloud cuckoo land.
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Many in the military, more bluntly, have a stereotype of gays as mincing, epicene "others" —a cartoon image which, the Pentagon survey shows, overwhelmingly evaporates on personal acquaintance.
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Most of these milestones involve learning and honing a technical skill such as boning a chicken or mincing garlic with the back of a knife at a breakneck speed - a vital skill that I have yet to accomplish or making a certain dish or component of one.
Archive 2008-07-01
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she stepped mincingly over the puddles
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Middle-aged merchants have a great fancy for such horses; their action recalls the swaggering gait of a smart waiter; they do well in single harness for an after-dinner drive; with mincing paces and curved neck they zealously draw a clumsy droshky laden with an overfed coachman, a depressed, dyspeptic merchant, and his lymphatic wife, in a blue silk mantle, with a lilac handkerchief over her head.
A Sportsman's Sketches
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There was only a couple of hundred votes in it but, interestingly, the sharp-suited Ruperts who had aspired to be "Tony's" right hand man and the poshly-voiced Jocastas with the framed pictures of Alistair Campbell on their desks seem to have other commitments now that being a member of the Labour party means actual work as opposed to merely mincing around wielding mobile phones and trying to look important.
Sadie's Tavern: Henley Was a Triumph, plus Winchester
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Some write feminist theology, take a stand and publicly speak out, not mincing words.
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One does very little cutting on vegetables using the tip, though, I do find it useful in mincing garlic and finely dicing onions.
Tigers & Strawberries » Knives are Dangerous
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Whereas the foxes chomped and swallowed each morsel rapidly and completely, the cat mincingly removed all the choice bits of flesh from the bone and then discarded the rest, moving on to pillage another piece.
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She said: ‘I was in the kitchen mincing some meat when I heard this terrific bang.’
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Tibetan society is charming but conservative, and the thought of Tibetan hotties mincing down the catwalk in their skimp challenged all credibility.
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In the first half of his latest show, Lord of the Mince - which he describes a self-assured strutt called mincing of which he is the doyen - he reviews the ups and downs in his life.
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“For tear-free chopping, mincing, dicing, slicing — fear no onion,” reads the packaging for RSVP Onion Goggles (shown), whose antifog lenses and foam seal are designed to protect your eyes from irritating onion vapors.
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In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins.
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In addition to tall and slim models mincing along the cat-walk, one occasionally sees a dozen or so women in their 50s and even 60s clothed in their best twisting their bodies on stage.
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He said that neither of the transcripts read by the defendants' lawyers included anything about bones, a mincing machine or blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result is good rhythm,- the easy, loose-limbed walk of a human, not the precise and mincing steps of an automaton.
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Of course," he said -- he used the two words very often, and pronounced the second, rather mincingly, to rhyme with _sauce_: "Of course," said Mr. May, "it's a disgusting place -- _disgusting_!
The Lost Girl
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She had bustlingly pushed Martin through the door and settled her wrap and taken a mincing, elegant pose, ready for the street, and waved her hand and made wide, scared eyes at Hannele, and was gone.
The Captain's Doll
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One was surely the thinnest man alive, his black flesh pasted over his sharp bones like tissue paper, his gait mincing, his eyes fiery.
EVERVILLE
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Under his critical gaze I manage to avoid mincing, but end up walking with a pronounced limp and a crooked back, instead - Mother Hubbard crossed with an out-of-condition baby elephant.
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Jekyll is mousy and mincing, while his alter-ego is an explosion of simian fury.
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Many in the military, more bluntly, have a stereotype of gays as mincing, epicene "others" —a cartoon image which, the Pentagon survey shows, overwhelmingly evaporates on personal acquaintance.
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Martin, who run the course, are lovely - keeping us delightfully fed and watered the whole time we were mincing meat then squishing it into "casings".
How can I recycle this?
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The concept was ‘Stars’, and a range of lookie-likies (read wannabes) were mincing around in the crowd.
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Frankly, I'm not built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
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Knife skills, such as dicing, mincing, chopping and slicing and poultry cutting
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But they walked free - despite one boasting on tape that he had used a mincing machine to dispose of her remains.
The Sun
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And's that pink nylon flippy wig just for morning lectures, or are you mincing around in it because it's pretty?
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Once mincing is done, transfer the pesto into a bowl and add the olive oil.
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Right before serving, make the gremolata by grating the zest and mincing parsley and garlic.
Let Them Eat Osso Buco
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She regarded the overdressed girl with aversion, answered her mincingly-spoken "How do you do, Marjory?" very curtly, and continued to "glower," as Mrs. Smylie described it, without saying another word.
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls
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I implore you, in fact '(yes, that word,' implore 'was uttered!),' to tell me the whole truth, without mincing matters.
The Possessed
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Then she set out in short, mincing steps like a geisha with a full pot of tea.
Villa Incognito
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Miss Slocum had a queer, mincing gait which her long limbs appeared averse to, and the result was a little hitchy.
That Girl Montana
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I mean, if you were banking 40 grand or more a week, and had a copious amount of free time on your hands, there are surely a million more imaginative ways to spend your time than mincing around celeb-studded night clubs in your Gucci threads!
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Tibetan society is charming but conservative, and the thought of Tibetan hotties mincing down the catwalk in their skimp challenged all credibility.
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And for those of us with long memories of mincing, saccharine productions, this revival is an eye opener.
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(DINAH _curtsies and takes his arm and they go up_ C.) (DINAH _takes mincing steps and playfully shakes her hand at_ MR. PIM,
Mr. Pim Passes By
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Once we’d moved on, we eventually found ourselves pootling (Trix thought the term mincing was not quite a gay enough description for our driving style, and music choices) down the A303, and Trixy decided randomly that, owing to Sherborne having a girls’ school (where my friend Sophie went incidentally) it was obviously a perfect place to stop off for a refreshing glass of wine.
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