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.
• 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
• After Game 1 slipped through the Raptors’ fingers, this loss tastes like a mouthful of blood.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 3 May 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024