MINCING in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for MINCING, such as:
1. You mince matters to an uncommon nicety.
2. I won't mince the lean meat finely unless making dumplings.
3. Mr Dedalus imitated the mincing nasal tone of the provincial.
4. Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
5. The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.
2. I won't mince the lean meat finely unless making dumplings.
3. Mr Dedalus imitated the mincing nasal tone of the provincial.
4. Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
5. The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.
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Meanings and Examples of MINCING
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mincing
a. speaking or walking affectedly or with caution; affectedly elegant and nice
Classic Sentence:
1 Easily and gracefully did he exchange agreeable bandinage with one lady, and then approach another one with the short, mincing steps usually affected by young-old dandies who are fluttering around the fair.
2 Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
3 That is to say, without mincing words, he invariably set before his hearers the sorrows and the difficulties which may confront a man, the trials and the temptations which may beset him.
4 At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
5 I know no language," he said, "but my own, and a few words of their mincing Norman.
6 My dear," she told her sister in a high mincing shout, "most of these fellas will cheat you every time.
7 Another piece called to her mind a dainty young woman clad in an Empire gown, taking mincing dancing steps as she came down a long avenue between tall hedges.
8 Mr Dedalus imitated the mincing nasal tone of the provincial.
9 Their elegant bodies swayed as they minced with tiny steps on their little pink feet upon the grass.
10 All shifted, preened, minced; hands were raised, legs shifted.
11 The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.
12 You mince matters to an uncommon nicety.
Example Sentence:
1 Yum-Yum walked across the stage with mincing steps.
2 A Fed chair has to fulfill two, often conflicting, statutory expectations, and be ready for his or her every word to be minced by the market.
3 I won't mince the lean meat finely unless making dumplings.