Sentence examples for Mooning from inspiring English sources

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Mooning

noun

The act of showing one's buttocks.

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For Mrs Miniver, he inserts a menacing glimpse of a flashing blade while Walter Pidgeon is mooning over the heroine, turning his quiet love into something dark and sinister (which, of course, never materialises in the story).

Aid donors blessed the outcome.Mr Martelly was once best-known for dressing in drag and mooning his fans on stage.

("Men went to the moon, but guys invented mooning").Whatever it is called, laddism has penetrated every medium.

Mr Martelly, now 50 years old, was best-known for dressing in drag and mooning the crowd on stage, and has admitted to smoking crack cocaine.

For 20 years at the Théâtre des Funambules, the great French mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796 1846) played Pierrot as the pathetic, white-robed lover eternally mooning over the beautiful Columbine.

Vice/virtue If you are anything like this GoT audience member, you are probably mooning over the chastened nature and strange nobility of a guy who once paralysed a child after being caught having sex with his own sister.

But while cinematic dystopias have been a Hollywood staple throughout the last century, the record-breaking success of post-apocalyptic teen bloodbath The Hunger Games has given them greater currency than ever before, replacing Twilight's supernatural mooning as the money-spinner du jour.

Among the many criticisms of the BBC submitted to the Culture, Media and Sport committee this week, one stood out like a mooning backside at the Queen's garden party.

Experts believe that she was also good at "mooning" at passing boys through her dormitory window.

She mystifyingly becomes absorbed in his book, and shows her contempt for her gallivanting friends by briefly mooning at them; unfazed by this casual immodesty, Alfredo too falls deeply in love.

The Lake District is known for its historic literary residents – but it wasn't all Romantic poets mooning about the hills.

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