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• Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
• During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
• A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince, one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.
• She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls. She didn't think at all about the men when she moved. Like a bird.
• His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince, and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.
• A very moderate degree of accomplishment in this direction would make an end of stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob.
• And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince, where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?
• [...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.
• Butchers often use machines to mince meat.
• I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you." — Shakespeare
• To mince one's words
• a minced oath
• Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.
• In some districts of England ll is sounded like w, thus bowd (booud) for BOLD, bw (buu) for BULL, caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.
• One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
• "The preacher said it was sympathetic," she minced the word, remembering Mr. Larsen's manner.
• The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go. --Is. III. 16.
• I'll turn two mincing steps into a manly stride. — Shakespeare
• 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.
• I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.
• Let’s not mince words.
• To mince one’s words.