Example sentences for: mincing

How can you use “mincing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rather than mincing around on the edges of the conflict-of-interest minefield, she's charging down the middle, ignoring the explosions to her left and right.

  • The Upham character is a particularly lurid example--his body type (skinny) and his movements (mincing) are completely different from those of the other soldiers, and seem somehow to be linked to his being more educated.

  • But there have been no new Poirot stories for a long time--and although we still watch the reruns, I have the feeling that his shiny mustache is getting shinier and his mincing steps even more mincing.

  • USA Today leads with mounting criticism of Kenneth Starr, mincing no words in referring to "his probe into President Clinton's sex life."

  • While English people are more or less immune from the mincing style of the Mayflower's granddaughters, Pentagonese has seriously infected the language of British trade union leaders.


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