MINCE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for MINCE, 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.

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 Meanings and Examples of MINCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mince
 v.  cut into very small pieces; chop fine; suppress or weaken the force of
Classic Sentence:
1  You mince matters to an uncommon nicety.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
2  Their elegant bodies swayed as they minced with tiny steps on their little pink feet upon the grass.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  All shifted, preened, minced; hands were raised, legs shifted.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
5  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.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
6  Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
7  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.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
8  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.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
9  I know no language," he said, "but my own, and a few words of their mincing Norman.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  My dear," she told her sister in a high mincing shout, "most of these fellas will cheat you every time.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  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.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  Mr Dedalus imitated the mincing nasal tone of the provincial.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  I won't mince the lean meat finely unless making dumplings.
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  Yum-Yum walked across the stage with mincing steps.