mannikin

How To Use mannikin In A Sentence

• As they went back to the register, Allie's gaze fell on a mannikin in the corner. GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN
• With light and electron microscopic autoradiography, the origination and distribution of the newborn neurons in adult "critical-period" songbird, Striated Mannikin were studied.
• Condi playing piano for the Queen, Condi at the Kennedy Center awards - are we still paying this mannikin to be Secretary of State? Clinton to Dine With Condoleezza Rice - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• This warden of all wardens has cracked the shell of this year's confidence, shaking the fragile mannikin of selfhood that you've patched together on the eve of becoming a doctor. ' 45 entries from March 2008
• The bridge, as the mannikin told us, was a favourite place for people to commit suicide.
• In Brussels stands the Mannikin Pis, a statue of a small boy having a wee.
• As he watches, the outlines of a diminutive human being -- a mannikin or 'homunculus' -- become visible and rapidly gain distinct form. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
• Then Sir Buzz cooked the girdle-cakes, and the soldier's son ate three of them and a handful of sweets; but the one-span mannikin gobbled up all the rest, saying at each mouthful, 'You men have such terrible appetites – such terrible appetites!' Tales of the Punjab
• This month’s exhibit was on the history of surgical instruments, and I glanced at the array of therapeutic weaponry—from crude, stone trepans exposing the cerebral tissue within a mannikin’s skull to lasers traversing arterial tunnels. Over the Edge
• Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind. The Bolted Door