How to Use emote in a Sentence

emote

verb

• He stood on the stage, emoting and gesturing wildly.
• This is a man who has learned to emote through the Real World opening credits.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
• The characters emote with the rich, sticky languor of a lava lamp, and none come to life with the force of those in the works to which Catán nods.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Queen, in which Helen Mirren’s monarch failed to emote publicly over the death of Diana).
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2020
• Don't emote for the dispossessed or write them a Christmas check.
  — Keith C. Burris, Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• The difference now is that this group has TikTok and hashtags to emote.
  — Lindsay Ellis and Angela Yang, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• For four days the fans whirred, birds swooped, Jane emoted—but nothing happened.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 14 Aug. 2017
• Actor Tom Sturridge does a fine job in the role, but he’s left to fill silent moments when Dream doesn’t speak or emote.
  — al, 10 Aug. 2022
• And now, twice in the last week, Biden has again stepped forward to show the nation — and the world — how to emote through another kind of crisis.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Mar. 2021
• Dancers are left trying to emote through movement and eye contact alone.
  — Lauren Luteran, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Jon Mullins, who Nick stole from Team Blake, has so much power behind his voice and also emotes the hell out of it.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• This is not to suggest that your favorite spy is given too much to emote and too little to do.
  — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Of all singers of the 21st century, there are few who can emote musically the way Adele does.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2019
• Michelle Williams is excellent as always, even if Scarpa’s script doesn’t give her much room to emote.
  — Michael O’Sullivan, idahostatesman, 25 Dec. 2017
• Because of that, the main character needed to emote his feelings with the face and body only.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 15 June 2022
• With the moon and sun in the same position, your emotions will be front-and-center, so give yourself plenty of space to emote.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 July 2018
• Trump has repeatedly made clear over the years his disdain for men who emote too much.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2018
• Meat Loaf learned to emote in musical theater, where laying it on too thick is part of the whole concept.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• This deep cut earnestly emotes despair and a feeling of defeat after a break-up.
  — Da’shan Smith, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2017
• Evans, a professional dancer, can do what many actors cannot: emote with her body.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• But Benicio is one of these actors who emotes so much non-verbally.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
• To emote alone in front of a green screen is perhaps the archetypal scenario of a movie star playing at being one in our time.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Aug. 2022
• And emoting them in a way that is again going toward realism.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
• Back Into Hell that shows off Meat Loaf’s ability to emote without belting to the heavens.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
• More likely, those who emoted more were simply in more distress.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• When emoting and brooding are needed, Daniel Craig portrays James Bond.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
• With her backup dancers armed with swords and spears, Grimes emotes to the camera amid flashes of a dancer in a white-winged mask doing a sensual battle dance.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2019
• In all seriousness, local Democrats love to emote about the burdens of the working and middle classes.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• Based off of Gary Jules' popularized cover of the song, Lambert wears every emotion on his sleeve, emoting through each of the song's painful lyrics.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2019
• There’s plenty of blood and plenty of emoting desperation, fear, and misery, but none of it lands with any weight in the wake of the raucously silly premise and tone.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024