How to Use mouthful in a Sentence

mouthful

noun
  • His last name is a real mouthful.
  • It was a delicious meal. We enjoyed every mouthful.
  • The trick is to make the tax bite a nibble, not a sloppy mouthful.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Shovel them in by the mouthful or use them in your favorite recipes.
    — idahostatesman, 4 July 2017
  • Its bowl is large enough for big mouthfuls of granola and yogurt.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, the hell-beast hissed at me with a mouthful of needles.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Each mouthful of light, bright seafood ended with a tickle of spice.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • When lunge feeding, whales charge toward food and sweep up a large mouthful.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • Yes, there’s a demonic agent of chaos with six limbs and a mouthful of huge teeth.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Look, sometimes a long time in the barrel leaves you with a mouthful of, well, wood.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2022
  • What danced across your palate in the first mouthful becomes a sickly chore by the end of the meal.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 3 Mar. 2025
  • All the bear got from my neck down was a few mouthfuls of clothes, except for the bite in my shoulder.
    — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2025
  • In the case of safety Collin Jones, that led to a mouthful of turf.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 28 July 2017
  • Phil builds himself a mouthful with bread and a slice of onion, giggles, shoves it in, and he is gone.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The clock started again, with victory just a few mouthfuls away.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • Not all that long ago, a little first-grade girl came to school with a mouthful of cavities.
    — David Frese, kansascity, 19 Mar. 2018
  • That’s a mouthful about the Fed, inflation, jobs, and yields.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Why are all these places pronounced like someone is trying to say them through a mouthful of sausage and mash?
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Gulping up a mouthful of saline seawater can be gross, but how did all that salt get there in the first place?
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Gulping up a mouthful of saline seawater can be gross, but how did all that salt get there in the first place?
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • As a reward, the dog was given a mouthful of truffle omelet left over from breakfast.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The product name is a mouthful, but the HA mention is what hooked me.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The mouthful of a creation will be available to customers through the end of July.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2017

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