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• To mince one's words
• I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.
• 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'll turn two mincing steps into a manly stride. — Shakespeare
• The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go. --Is. III. 16.
• "The preacher said it was sympathetic," she minced the word, remembering Mr. Larsen's manner.
• One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
• 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.
• Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.
• a minced oath
• Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
• I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you." — Shakespeare
• Butchers often use machines to mince meat.
• [...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.