How To Use Mouthful In A Sentence
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Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
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Don't be fooled by English English," advised Columbia: "the accent is like a mouthful of pudding, and when they mean to say the weather is bad they say it is 'nawsty;' they call their rubbers 'galoshes,' their dépôts 'stations,' and when they start on a journey they get their
Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
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Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be off-putting and difficult to remember for many.
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It is next to impossible for a fruit bat to avoid the grit, which adheres to the sticky fruit it eats as well as to the animal itself; even as a bat grooms itself, it gets a mouthful of the ash.
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There is yet another fiber network, called a mouthful SEA-ME-WE-4, is being constructed to serve the booming Asian demand for bandwidth.
Yet another fiber network
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Korina swallowed a mouthful of food and looked over at Cat as she sat down on the couch next to Matthew.
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It's not going to be funny when someone who can't have nut products gets a mouthful of the wrong food and goes into shock.
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Some of our friends must be burning for a mouthful, poor dears; the wounded flesh is drouthy.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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He laughed, swallowing a mucky mouthful.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She dumped the toys proudly on the kitchen table before taking her seat and another slurpy mouthful of cereal.
Law of Attraction
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It is a big, juicy mouthful and the trout love it.
Times, Sunday Times
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We purposely make them a bit of a mouthful - it just helps make them more satisfying.
The Sun
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But in the well-made cake, the plums are wisely scattered all through, and every mouthful is a pleasure.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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To get through a single mouthful of the stuff is the biggest compliment you can pay it.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like taking a mouthful of good wine, swishing it around in your mouth, savoring it before you let it go down.
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Tucker cleared his throat loudly, bringing up a mouthful of phlegm.
MINUTES TO BURN
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She mumbled a muffled thanks through the mouthful of grips and positioned herself in front of the reflective piece of glass, carefully retying her hair then sliding each clip back into its rightful place.
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I highly recommend against sneezing when you have a mouthful of chocolate.
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He's got a funny way of showing it,' I mumbled through a mouthful of beef koon po.
DEAD BEAT
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As he spat a mouthful of orange goop on the floor, he heard Jeremy laughing at him.
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For the duration of the rut, territorial bulls within smelling distance of cows will barely pause long enough to munch a mouthful of grass.
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He supped a mouthful of coffee then told me that she couldn't come for nuts.
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She gulped down a mouthful of coffee.
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This simple salad provides all five tastes in one delicious mouthful.
Times, Sunday Times
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This zesty mixture is the perfect complement to the cabbagey flavour of broccoli, lending crunch and tension to each mouthful.
Times, Sunday Times
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She fits the words in between small mouthfuls that she chews assiduously, her brown rice cud masticated to sweet grainy liquid before she swallows it down.
A LITTLE BIT OF A GOOD THING • by elissa vann struth
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Three meals a day are taken in a group, but in silence and as another form of meditation, as each mouthful is slowly chewed and contemplated.
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He chewed a mouthful of meat and only held his gray eyes on her.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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She took a mouthful of food and then suddenly spat it out.
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Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
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Anna dipped her spoon into the bowl and took a mouthful of soup.
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He's got a funny way of showing it,' I mumbled through a mouthful of beef koon po.
DEAD BEAT
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As he sat twiddling his – um – stick, he uttered up a mouthful of locker room skat, that offended a righteous few.
Sean Avery…sloppy seconds jibe gets hockey jock canned! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
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He chewed a mouthful of meat and only held his gray eyes on her.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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His spirits exhilarated by the unexpected good cheer, the Comedian gave way to his naturally blithe humour; and between every mouthful he rattled or rather drolled on, now infant-like, now sage-like.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03
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She spooned out a mouthful of the fruit and cream extending her arm towards him.
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Eppstadt ate a couple of mouthfuls of rare tuna, then put down his fork.
COLDHEART CANYON
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A good way to break the habit of eating too quickly is to put your knife and fork down after each mouthful.
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And I've just finished eating, gosh, about six mouthfuls.
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I'd downed three mouthfuls so far and was starting to sweat through my polo neck sweater.
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He refuses to accept another mouthful until he is clear of the last.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wrapped myself around him, we kept up our quick pace for awhile until I felt his grip loosen and he panted and huffed and puffed, taking a mouthful of air and collapsing on my body.
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Love them, though, that she could! — and she hugged Peterle to her great bosom, which — NICHT WAHR, MEINE LIEBEN? — they would have judged able to nourish the dozen of which she dreamed; whereas, if they could credit it, for her treasure, her well-beloved little cock-chafer, it had yielded not so much as a mouthful.
Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
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When the store has been taken in, this accessory orifice, which is used only during the last few moments, is closed with a mouthful of mortar, thrust outward from within.
More Hunting Wasps
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The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweet.
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Having bitten off this large mouthful, Mr. Burroughs proceeds with serene and beautiful satisfaction to masticate it in the following fashion.
The Other Animals
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Rocky smiled with a mouthful of food and gave a thumbs up, oblivious to his mother, who was frowning across the table.
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Otherwise, they were beautifully wrought postmodern constructions containing multiple ingredients to be blended and worked into suitable mouthfuls.
Times, Sunday Times
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St Nicholas Fields Conservation Group is a bit of a mouthful, and becomes the Friends of St Nicholas Fields.
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A long-handled spoon helps to savour the foodstuff in small and leisurely mouthfuls, in true connoisseur's style.
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Good, young red Rioja like this, made exclusively from the Tempranillo grape, can and does deliver a joyous light, zesty, plummy, intriguingly chocolatey mouthful.
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She prims her thin lips after every mouthful of tea.
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Extra-vagant certainly may be construed out of bounds; we need no ghost with a mouthful of Syntax to tell us that; but Shakspeare had too much taste to adopt such an absurd Latinism.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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He put the groceries away, drank a mouthful of whiskey, and fell into a dead sleep that would last nearly fifteen hours.
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I've been grazing among the blogs and chewing that question like a tough mouthful of cud.
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But amidst the mastication of his third or fourth mouthful, Paul felt his unhappy stomach take a still unhappier turn.
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Grab one by the leaves, dunk it whole in butter, then dip it in salt and eat in one mouthful.
The Sun
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The waiter stood waiting for me to take my first mouthful.
Times, Sunday Times
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In between mouthfuls of sausage, home-made bread, muffins, fresh fruit, yoghurt and muesli, we discussed the dive sites he would show me.
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With effort, she managed to swallow the first soothing mouthful, and she sipped at the water as an epicure would savor a good wine.
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It was perfect to dip naan bread in, and the pilau rice was wolfed down by Matt who seemed to enthuse about how special the chef's special was with every mouthful.
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He lets the word linger for a while and savors a mouthful of his drink.
The Redleys
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And that means fans of the Shrimpers' Stout and Quayside beer have less than a month to swig their final mouthfuls of the favourite tipples.
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People find my first name a mouthful but generally like it.
When Mary Ain't Good Enough
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The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweet.
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Daughter decided this creamy curry with a cashew nut base looked more tempting than the meal she ordered but a mouthful later, decided otherwise. The extra dish had been prepared ‘hot’ and nearly sent her sky high.
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This is yet another Beaujolais cru which develops with time into a glorious mouthful.
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The headline suggests an enormous mouthful to bite off in five columns ' worth of text, but that didn't hold us back in a spring issue 58 years ago.
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See how long you can take to eat a meal or a sandwich, chewing every mouthful as slowly as possible.
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Ideally, no matter how small a journalists' salary, he should not sell his integrity for a mouthful of rice.
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Un trago de agua is a drink/swallow/mouthful of water.
Trago always alcohol?
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Grinning toothily through her mouthful, she chuckled, spraying popcorn.
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She swallowed her mouthful of food and grinned sheepishly.
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It is a gorgeous, rich, curranty, cedar and cinnamon mouthful tailor-made for roast lamb or beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
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Few cuisines can be spicy, salty, sweet and sour all in one mouthful and this is what makes Thai food so good.
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The birds hold their bills upside down, using their lower bills and tongues to pump water through fringes on the top bills, which filters out microscopic mouthfuls of food.
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Richard swallowed his mouthful, leaned back in his seat and polished his glasses in a parody of the learned academics who pontificate on TV.
KICK BACK
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The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweet.
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There was a cow in the field, slowly chewing a mouthful of grass.
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Yes, in the moment of passion and with a mouthful of Chinese food you said you'd be my shield and sword.
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The 11 competitors from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia tend to be tagged with the soulless acronym FYROM because their country's proper name is such a mouthful -- and Greece jealously reserves the name Macedonia for its north-central administrative region.
Happy Just To Be Here
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Pete shortly reappeared with a grin and a mouthful of freshly cooked sausage.
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There she spoon-fed him a mouthful of cheesecake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes you get drawn into food and silence falls as each mouthful is savoured.
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(Among the most popular of these was Fletcherism, which advocated chewing each mouthful of food at least 32 times.
Chicago Reader
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And it was nailed-on fantastic, every mouthful.
Times, Sunday Times
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People often envision a costume designer as a sewing whiz with a mouthful of pins and a faithful dressmaker's dummy.
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I ate smaller and smaller mouthfuls, not because I was losing my appetite, but to extend the sensation of remarkable tastes.
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There are two schools of thought on soup dumplings, which are basically thin-walled spheroids filled with pork and jellied broth that transform themselves into boiling-hot mouthfuls of juice.
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A WOMAN choked to death in front of her horrified husband after a mouthful of Indian curry ‘went down the wrong way’, an inquest heard.
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After just a few mouthfuls of food you can feel completely full.
The Sun
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The natives, after each mouthful, sipped arrak from porcelain cups, and used golden spoons to eat their rice.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
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A mouthful of nineteen botanicals (more than any other brand) gives it a complex flavor of fruit and spice and a generous mouthfeel.
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The fearsome creatures prove there's more to them than a mouthful of sharp teeth as their complex social lives are probed.
The Sun
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I told her what I thought and got a mouthful of abuse for my pains!
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People often envision a costume designer as a sewing whiz with a mouthful of pins and a faithful dressmaker's dummy.
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He put the cup to his lips and swallowed a mouthful of surprisingly palatable coffee.
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Next he pulled out a bottle of Firewine and took a mouthful before gargling it like mouthwash and swallowing it.
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Michael told his story between mouthfuls.
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Hardly had the King eaten a mouthful when he burst out laughing.
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I'm not going to even pretend to understand in any detail how this mouthful of an acronym really works.
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`I'm glad the Italians didn't scrimp and save and move away, like the Whatchamacallits," said Anastasia, after two mouthfuls of spaghetti.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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A bite or two of the crunchy carrot salad, a mouthful of spicy aubergine, a nibble of the pickled cauliflower.
The Sun
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During the second I was under I swallowed a mouthful of salt water and got plenty in my eyes.
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He prodded at the fish with his fork a few times, but he didn't eat a mouthful.
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Immense vases and candelabras of alabaster were placed at different distances on the table, and hundreds of porcelain dishes were filled with sweetmeats and fruits – sweetmeats of every description, from the little meringue called "mouthful for a queen," to the blancmanger made of suprême de volaille and milk.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Then she makes her nest, carrying mouthfuls of bedding to the chosen spot before rooting and pawing it into shape.
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The first mouthful of the crust of the ribs gives a smell of char, and then the tastebuds are stimulated by the peppery inside and by the sweet honey basted on the ribs, which helps remove some of the hotness.
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He only ate a few mouthfuls of meat.
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Between mouthfuls of polenta Andrew dropped enough names to fill a telephone directory.
RESCUING ROSE
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I munch a mushroom, then strip a spiny ground herb to yield a mouthful of sweet white pith.
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This has what was doubtless the desired effect: a mouthful of gin and tonic comes back out through my nose.
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Next take a good mouthful and let it sit in your mouth for a couple of seconds.
The Sun
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I munch a mushroom, then strip a spiny ground herb to yield a mouthful of sweet white pith.
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It was just that no one was willing to replace a pithy phrase with either an ugly acronym or a yawn-inducing mouthful.
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I got a mouthful of abuse.
The Sun
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A mouthful of peanuts with some salt and vinegar crisps, that works just fine.
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Deep ripe raspberry aromas and peppery spice scents deliver a smooth rounded mouthful of robust earthy raspberry flavours, firm tannins and classic peppery finale.
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Hardly had the King eaten a mouthful when he burst out laughing.
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The servant brought a glass of water, which I downed in a single mouthful.
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It is not unusual to see smokers dragging on cigarettes between mouthfuls at meals.
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Langewiesche (it looks like a mouthful, but it's pronounced Langa-wisha) has been to the country 10 times since the commencement of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," and his astringent assessment of the situation there is not encouraging.
The Fall of Summer
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Gladstone had recommended chewing each bite thirty-two times, so Fletcher chewed every mouthful of food until it was pulverized into liquid.
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“An they come not back the sooner,” said Tibb, “they will fare the waur, for the meat will be roasted to a cinder — and there is poor Simmie that can turn the spit nae langer: the bairn is melting like an icicle in warm water — Gang awa, bairn, and take a mouthful of the caller air, and I will turn the broach till ye come back.”
The Monastery
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Each mouthful is cooled and seasoned when the steak is dipped into two quickly made sauces.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain.
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A mouthful of chocolate passed for breakfast before we forsook big boots for sticky rubber.
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He emitted a pained hiss through a mouthful of blood, the type of noise a poisonous snake would make after being cloven in half by a farmer's spade.
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Walking back across the road I spat a mouthful of water onto the windscreen of Howard's commonwealth car.
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The gin is assertive, woody, a pungent mouthful, with the bite of alcohol and aromatics.
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I'm shouting ‘Are you Ellie’ and Elie, complete with a mouthful of parkin, is gleefully shouting back ‘Yeth I am.’
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I answer through a mouthful of chocolate candies.
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Kieran swallowed his mouthful of chicken and wiped his hands on his jerkin.
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He talked eagerly between mouthfuls of salad.
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To get through a single mouthful of the stuff is the biggest compliment you can pay it.
Times, Sunday Times
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She glared at him, then spat the mouthful of half-chewed cookie into the napkin.
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She took a large mouthful of bread and started to read the letter.
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‘Thank you,’ she mutters between mouthfuls of crunchy deliciousness.
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She was in her natural form, grazing on the verdant patch of grass nearby; a forgotten mouthful of grass hung unchewed.
Here There Are Monsters
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He took a mouthful of water and swirled it around his mouth.
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It was all made with a vibrant authenticity, bright flavours, big smiling mouthfuls.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nigiri is appropriately sized (bucking the current trend of sushi so big it exceeds any polite mouthful).
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Do not gulp down your food; savor each mouthful and chew well before you swallow.
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Eating the cake, he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth, every mouthful an act of shared indecency.
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Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
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He chewed a mouthful of meat and only held his gray eyes on her.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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If we tell her off we get a mouthful.
The Sun
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He took a mouthful of water and swirled it around his mouth.
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Lorenzo opened a bottle of cerveza Victoria and swallowed a mouthful.
DESPERADOES
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`I'm glad the Italians didn't scrimp and save and move away, like the Whatchamacallits," said Anastasia, after two mouthfuls of spaghetti.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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There she was, conspiring against her own hopes with every mouthful.
GALILEE
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Thank you, but I couldn't eat another mouthful.
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Then the host began motioning with his hand as though he were giving my brother a mouthful; and ceased not to enumerate and expatiate upon the various dishes to the hungry man whose hunger waxt still more violent, so that his soul lusted after a bit of bread, even a barley scone. 690 Quoth the Barmecide, “Didst thou ever taste anything more delicious than the seasoning of these dishes?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Her name is a bit of a mouthful too, so everyone calls her Jen, and she's thirteen.
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The first mouthful releases a sugary rush which almost puts my teeth on edge.
The Sun
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Each mouthful is a special treat, bursting with moisture and flavor as you crush the papaya cube with your tongue.
Magnificent Mexican Papaya
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He laughed, swallowing a mucky mouthful.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Anyway, I reached for the bottle but I slipped on the chair, next thing the grotty bottle of metho goes flying in the air and I go flying and I end up with a mouthful of metho!
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Max ignored that remark, on his third mouthful now, but he spoke after he swallowed.
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That mouthful of a title obliquely refers to a small business grants program it would establish to help bodegas stock produce and market healthy items, as well as funding local education campaigns to spur purchases.
Tracie McMillan: Foodies in da ���Hood?
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As a plaudit, "recently established definitive Russian text" may sound like a pedantic mouthful, but Platonov is anything but a writer of merely academic interest.
A Different Stripe:
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Buttery aromas with delicate wood-spice and distant scents of lemon, honey and nut all come together in a fresh lemon backed butter and bitter almond mouthful before a mild and drying chalky finish.
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Liitoja was definitely on the cranky side a few years ago when he came up with the title's fatalistic mouthful of words.
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Then he took a mouthful of his drink and then put the glass in my face.
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The three carried their supper into the living room and after a few mouthfuls of tea, picked up their instruments.
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So it came to me on Tuesday night as I was chewing on a mouthful of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and trying to decide if I could call the tannins both “firm” and “drying”: the Diploma is to wine what dressage is to horseback riding – arcane, academic and interesting to an extremely small, and extremely passionate, group of people.
Sasha Smith
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He took a mouthful of the cheap wine and sloshed it around his mouth.
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She prims her thin lips after every mouthful of tea.
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She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, prolonging the pleasure.
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He only ate a few mouthfuls of meat.
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The coffee he would accept, but though he tried, he could not swallow a mouthful of food.
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The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweet.
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So she arose and served up to him whatso remained of meat and sweetmeat and he fell to morselling [FN#164] them with mouthfuls and soothing them with soft words till they had their sufficiency of victual, after which she, the mother-in - law, removed the tray.
Arabian nights. English
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On one of the few remaining green leaves a caterpillar is feeding, not with the voracious fervour of the newly hatched but with slow deliberation, as if forcing down a few final mouthfuls.
Country diary: South Uist
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In a moment of devilment, or perhaps madness, I accepted a mouthful of this evil-smelling mess of which any aspiring witch would be proud.
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So, they'll work endlessly for a mouthful of banana, added Poling.
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It was the first chocolate he'd tasted for over a year, so he savoured every mouthful.
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This smooth, mellow mouthful delivers flavours of dried red fruits, apples, vanilla and oak.
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He chewed a mouthful of meat and only held his gray eyes on her.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Chew each mouthful fully before the next bite.
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I couldn't eat hardly a mouthful these days for picterin 'my pretty lyin' in the mud at the bottom of that slimy, smellin 'canal, "whined Perry, wiping her eyes on the corner of a much-betrimmed white apron.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
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As I came to the end of it I burst into tears, without warning, in the middle of a mouthful of grilled cheese sandwich.
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He told the story between mouthfuls.
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He sat back up and pointed to the sandwich as he took a mouthful of apple.
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It's called the Pan-Carib-bean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project, which is quite a mouthful.
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She took a large mouthful of bread and started to read the letter.
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Richard swallowed his mouthful, leaned back in his seat and polished his glasses in a parody of the learned academics who pontificate on TV.
KICK BACK
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This new device, which was jointly developed by the Japanese company Hyper Drive and uses SRI's rubbery material, called electroactive polymer artificial muscle - what a mouthful for the name of a rubbery material.
Undefined
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Then Sir Buzz cooked the girdle-cakes, and the soldier's son ate three of them and a handful of sweets; but the one-span mannikin gobbled up all the rest, saying at each mouthful, 'You men have such terrible appetites – such terrible appetites!'
Tales of the Punjab
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Then he submerged his head and came up with a mouthful of dripping duckweed and water bistort.
The Plains of Passage
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His father would glunch and glare at every mouthful he saw his son eat.
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These provide a few small mouthfuls of sweetness.
Times, Sunday Times
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French label Wagram reports similar sales for Pony Pony Run Run's "You Need Pony Pony Run Run" and says "A Mouthful" by pop-rock band the Do and "Artificial Animals Riding on Neverland" by
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He would talk until his head smoked of his list of miraculous cures -- of his balsams, his anodynes, his elixirs; in the benevolence of his soul he would, to accommodate the pockets of the poor, sell a pennyworth of the philosopher's stone; and, as a further illustration of his sympathy for suffering man or woman, give, even for a kreutzer, a mouthful of the Fountain of Youth.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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It's like eating an elephant: small mouthfuls moving slowly up.
Times, Sunday Times
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As our wine supply diminishes, so each mouthful becomes nectar.
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I picked at my food, my entire appetite deserting me after the first few mouthfuls.
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A mouthful, that is, of nothing over which a blessing must be pronounced.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
