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ventriloquist

[ UK /vɛntɹˈɪləkwˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

How To Use ventriloquist In A Sentence

  • Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
  • In the 10 years I've worked with him, I don't think I've even used the word ventriloquist when I describe him," Brown-Marmel told Pollstar Photo RSS Feed
  • Let's not be conned into thinking the emergency ventriloquist act is a special treat. Times, Sunday Times
  • I mean, the only thing worse then having a wax dummy, is having a wax dummy of a ventriloquist dummy that looks like a clown!
  • Viola in any way with it, and it seemed impossible, also, for Mrs. Lambert to sit where she was and handle the cone, to say nothing of the ventriloquistic skill necessary to carry on this conversation. The Tyranny of the Dark
  • Could a ventriloquist's dummy have anything to do with it? The Sun
  • I can't believe she consciously deceived us, but it is possible that these ventriloquistic voices have become a subconscious habit. The Shadow World
  • Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
  • He points it at them and uses it as a ventriloquist's dummy, throwing his voice into it and waggling it about to make it look as though they're talking.
  • Avant-garde theatre all too often not only trashes classical scripts, but also reduces the actors to ventriloquist's dummies for some directorial message.
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