How to Use mouthful in a Sentence

mouthful

noun
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  • His last name is a real mouthful.
  • It was a delicious meal. We enjoyed every mouthful.
  • Don’t let her age, or the mouthful of braces, fool you.
    — Terry Monahan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • In the case of safety Collin Jones, that led to a mouthful of turf.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 28 July 2017
  • The trick is to make the tax bite a nibble, not a sloppy mouthful.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The muffins are moist and rich and the farthest thing from a blazing mouthful of sandy beach.
    — Jesse Sparks, Bon Appetit, 21 June 2018
  • The product name is a mouthful, but the HA mention is what hooked me.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The mother rolls to one side (always the same side), opens wide, and takes a mouthful of sand from the ocean floor.
    — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But siu mai was too much of a mouthful for Australians to pronounce back in the 1940s.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Each sip is like a mouthful of cherry shaved ice on a hot day.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 20 May 2021
  • Look, sometimes a long time in the barrel leaves you with a mouthful of, well, wood.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the hell-beast hissed at me with a mouthful of needles.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • That’s a mouthful about the Fed, inflation, jobs, and yields.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The name is a mouthful, but the narrative is easy to follow.
    — Ryan Patrick Hooper, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2019
  • More than 300 grains of lead and copper will knock a mouthful of week-old donuts out of any black bear.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Shovel them in by the mouthful or use them in your favorite recipes.
    — idahostatesman, 4 July 2017
  • The mouthful of a creation will be available to customers through the end of July.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2017
  • Each mouthful of light, bright seafood ended with a tickle of spice.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • A 14-year-old dog with a mouthful of bad teeth, a wart on his head and a kidney infection.
    — Mike Householder, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2017
  • That's a mouthful, but the upshot is that Easter can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25.
    — Deena Yellin, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Its bowl is large enough for big mouthfuls of granola and yogurt.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The blend is a mouthful of grapes: viognier, roussanne, marsanne, clairette, bourboulenc and grenache blanc.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2021
  • When a predator goes to take a bite, Geckolepis megalepis gives it a mouthful of scales and flesh instead.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Paquette said the whale had a mouthful of fish and crashed down on the back of their boat, sending them flying.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 23 July 2024
  • Dozens of good jokes would get thrown out just because one of them had mumbled the line through a mouthful of bacon.
    — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The poor trusting teenager took a big mouthful — and sprayed it right back out, all over the art books on the coffee table.
    — Michelle Huneven, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • When lunge feeding, whales charge toward food and sweep up a large mouthful.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • Not all that long ago, a little first-grade girl came to school with a mouthful of cavities.
    — David Frese, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Here are details on the best mouthfuls of lunchbox-friendly strawberry yogurt to pack— and the ones to dump down the drain.
    — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • This means a whale must take many fewer mouthfuls to eat, explained Szabo.
    — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

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