pantomime in English

noun
1
a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.
In a totally unstructured environment, they present this creative explosion through modern dance, mime, pantomime and music with a whole lot of playfulness.
2
a theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, that involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas.
Hart plays the genie in this raucous take on the British pantomime , a story based on the myth of Aladdin and his magic lamp.
verb
1
express or represent (something) by extravagant and exaggerated mime.
the clown candidates pantomimed different emotions

Use "pantomime" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "pantomime" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "pantomime", or refer to the context using the word "pantomime" in the English Dictionary.

1. Pantomime isn't acting?

2. We took the children to a pantomime.

3. He has also appeared in pantomime.

4. Let's take the children to the pantomime!

5. Invite them to pantomime each answer.

6. The audience roared at the pantomime.

7. Why would you do this, this pantomime?

8. Arlequinade: Musique Pour Une Pantomime De Carnaval

9. 10 He has also appeared in pantomime.

10. She's acted in a lot of pantomime.

11. Pantomime is about bringing laughter to thousands.

12. The children perform a Christmas pantomime every year.

13. It's an evening of music, drama and pantomime.

14. She performed a pantomime of having swallowed an insect.

15. He wore a black cloak, like a pantomime villain.

16. Invite the children to pantomime the correct way to pray.

17. Dumb Crambo is a pantomime game similar to Charades

18. A comedy or pantomime in which Harlequin is the main attraction.

19. Her island had a twenty-foot movie screen, a pantomime parade, carnival.

20. A pantomime actor might have done what you did today.

21. How appropriate that her latest stage role should be in pantomime.

22. Sign language has nothing in common with Braille, and it is not simply pantomime.

23. HArlequinade (plural hArlequinades) A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown

24. Vestigial remains of these plays are now seen in the Christmas pantomime.

25. There then followed a curious little pantomime, apparently also dictated by tradition.

26. They were made welcome with the usual pantomime of exaggerated smiles and gestures.

27. 25 He had an infectious sense of humour, and recently scripted an amusing and satirical pantomime.

28. Ian Botham is sometimes represented as breaking new ground for his appearances in pantomime.

29. The company's board meetings had become a pantomime and no decisions were ever made.

30. This pantomime aroused the defenders and showed clearly the need for better ship-to-shore communications.

31. Act out, to demonstrate or illustrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: The party guests Acted …

32. Limelight featured a cameo appearance from Buster Keaton, whom Chaplin cast as his stage partner in a pantomime scene.

33. •Classifiers are designated handshapes and/or rule- grounded body pantomime used to nouns and verbs

34. At other times, he resorted to pantomime, as in lying before a brick symbolizing Jerusalem.

35. 18 Like Jagger, like Rotten, he is condemned to live out its pantomime for ever.

36. As time passed, public taste for the classics waned, and they were replaced by lewd pantomime shows.

37. When I finally arrived, he made a pantomime of checking his watch and shaking it in disbelief.

38. ASL is not a form of pantomime, but iconicity does play a larger role in ASL than in spoken languages.

39. He stepped in front of the class like a demon king making his appearance in a pantomime.

40. Martin composed a pantomime titled Les Lions de Mysore ("the lions of Mysore"), an idea that Amburgh quickly borrowed.

41. Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment, and I have yet to live it down.

42. Invite each group to pantomime their action, and ask the other children to guess what they are doing.

43. Pantomime - what a good excuse to forget your age and join in with the booing, hissing, singing and hilarity.

44. In circumstances when words are inappropriate or impractical, the apology may take the form of an elaborate pantomime of contrition.

45. 27 This pantomime went on for some time and, inevitably, the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms.

46. Clown, familiar comic character of pantomime and circus, known by distinctive makeup and costume, ludicrous antics, and buffoonery, whose purpose is to induce hearty laughter.

47. Without some measure of this interior Adoration "in spirit and in truth" it is evident that any outward show of divine worship would be mere pantomime and falsehood.

48. "Cahoots" is probably noted most for '4% Pantomime,' a duet showcasing the late Richard Manuel and guest Van Morrison, and this track could possibly be a telling of the hard-eyed aspects of the music industry

49. Giselle (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ z ɛ l /; French: ), originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis (French: [ʒizɛl u le vili], ' Giselle, or The Wilis '), is a romantic Ballet ("Ballet-pantomime") in two acts, and is considered a masterwork in the classical Ballet performance canon

50. Chorus: And she was one of the forty thieves In a Christmas pantomime More modest, more divine Better than all the 'thirty nine' So thought poor little Green But the girl knew what was what For he tumbled shortly after She was the Artfulest thief of the lot.