How To Use Ventriloquist In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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Let's not be conned into thinking the emergency ventriloquist act is a special treat.
Times, Sunday Times
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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!
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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
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Could a ventriloquist's dummy have anything to do with it?
The Sun
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I can't believe she consciously deceived us, but it is possible that these ventriloquistic voices have become a subconscious habit.
The Shadow World
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Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
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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.
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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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At the very least, if they end up dropping this, keep at least Job and Franklin, the ventriloquist dummy because if they just spun off on their own, I would be so happy.
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A ventriloquist and puppet collector is to put her rare collection on display.
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They are their dogs' ventriloquists and mind readers, as well as parents, entertainers, waiters, nurses and fetchers.
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This is part of his insightful and terrifyingly personal series of poems from a ventriloquist's dummy to its puppeteer.
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Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
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I realized that if this were a bad horror movie, it'd be a ventriloquist dummy in its little suitcase, urging me to go out and set fires.
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He seemed an unpromising ventriloquist's dummy.
Times, Sunday Times
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What this book reminded me of again and again, and to its detriment, was Geoff Ryman's 253, which started out as hypertext and eventually was published. 253 can be both or alternately tedious and addictive, but I generally feel that the writing is better than in 10:01, perhaps because it is less intent on creating various voices, a technique I find cloying unless the writer is a particular sort of ventriloquistic genius.
LitBlog Co-Op
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I just checked out your author poster, and it scares me (the way clowns & ventriloquist dummies do).
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Photos and playbills from famous ventriloquists line the walls.
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Weissmann has made anything but the simplest ventriloquistic performance impossible -- she cannot lift a hand.
The Tyranny of the Dark
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The lonely Harlan Pepper, a would-be ventriloquist and believer in animal ESP, has his hopes riding on Hubert the bloodhound.
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To me, this is the sort of person who has taken about as much personal responsibility for mental development as a ventriloquist's dummy.
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Of course I should have probably looked through the spy hole because staring me in the face was a ventriloquist's dummy.
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The 21-year-old is set to wow the judges with his ventriloquist act on tonight's show.
The Sun
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I had a ventriloquist's dummy and used to do magic shows for the family.
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A crucial ventriloquist's dummy is hideously mutilated.
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Just to say that if any of you feel like doing your party piece towards the end of tomorrow's dinner do feel free, and bring guitar, ventriloquist's dummy or whatever…
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Is this ventriloquist a dummy - or funny?
The Sun
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His need to lecture his readers sometimes forces his protagonist into the role of the ventriloquist's dummy - and too often we can see the master's lips moving.
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A ventriloquist and puppet collector is to put her rare collection on display.
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Photos and playbills from famous ventriloquists line the walls.
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(That reception is recounted, too, in Peter Carey's ventriloquistic new novel, Parrot and Olivier in America.)
The Visitor
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Of course I should have probably looked through the spy hole because staring me in the face was a ventriloquist's dummy.
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Secretly, he wants to give it up and go on the boards as a ventriloquist.
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They moved in their sleep, they kicked and gave vent to a series of little ventriloquistic barks as puppies have a habit of doing; then the mother licked them fondly with her soft tongue, and therefore one awoke.
Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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What you have are more voices by a single ventriloquist.
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To date, the ventriloquist is the only variety act to win America's Got Talent in four series - the previous and subsequent winners have all been singers - and it is a feat he is very proud of.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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I had a ventriloquist's dummy and used to do magic shows for the family.
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Like two ventriloquists ' dummies or two sides of the same coin, both master and slave are locked in association.
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Conventional creative writing teaching would have us believe that the ventriloquist is a more fully evolved lifeform than the exhibitionist.
Archive 2008-06-01
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A freakish ventriloquist dummy with the face and voice of a small child told us where to go.
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He made his stage debut at the age of two as a ventriloquist's dummy and appeared on radio shows.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter acknowledged his sense and approbation of what was said to him by an assentient and expressive "Ugh!" which came from his chest without any apparent emotion of the lips, much in the manner of a modern ventriloquist.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete)
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Ventriloquist, straight man for brashy puppet, Charlie McCarthy, Candice Bergen's father
Celebrity Dirty Laundry
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A work of astonishing ventriloquistic virtuosity ...
Any Human Heart: Summary and book reviews of Any Human Heart by William Boyd.
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Ventriloquist, the heart throws its voice to the wind, thrums from the burr oaks and lichen covered stones.
Small Press Poetry « So Many Books
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Pepper is a true renaissance man: in addition to showing Hubert, he runs a fly-fishing store and performs as a ventriloquist.
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In addition to magic and clowning, he is a highly skilled ventriloquist and pantomimist.
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The most sinister of these is a ventriloquist dummy Joey found in an old abandoned house.
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A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and stops to entertain at a bar in a small town.
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A dying swan ballet and a tap were well choreographed and the ventriloquist act was just one of the sequence of side-splitting acts.
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A choir of ventriloquistic monstrosity, from Hungary.
Open Rights Group forum on proposal to cut British households off from the net if one member is accused of illegal downloads - Boing Boing
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In it, you produce a wooden ventriloquist's dummy, carved to look a little bit like you.
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A talking monkey is alright for children as a ventriloquist's dummy, but how about a doll which speaks only about AIDS and HIV.
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She talks rather like a ventriloquist, without moving her lips, though she eschews the fixed smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Entertainment included a hypnotist and a ventriloquist.
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The most sinister of these is a ventriloquist dummy Joey found in an old abandoned house.
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Backstage staff assembling and building the set are looking for a 1930s-style upright wheelchair, and a male ventriloquist's dummy.
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I repeat, those who want to be ventriloquist's dummies for such a ‘hidden agenda’ are being far too modest.
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A dying swan ballet and a tap were well choreographed and the ventriloquist act was just one of the sequence of side-splitting acts.
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A large bronze doll seated alone on a low shelf at the far end of the room resembles a ventriloquist's puppet.
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Your friend's need for validation is somewhat odd and it's understandable that you do not relish being the ventriloquist's dummy.
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Punk-rockers, ventriloquists' dummies, clowns, and show-business celebrities have taken the place of the preacher - and they are degrading the gospel.
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The narrative may be a ventriloquist's dummy's dream, or the dream of a woman dreaming she's a ventriloquist's dummy.
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Talking of which, I've just got a great job: it's writing a 20 minute dialogue for a ventriloquist and dummy.
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Quinsey was known as a mesmerist, a ventriloquist, an illusionist, a prestidigitator and a master of the Black Art, and occasionally in
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier
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For the role of the ventriloquist in Magic I got some training from a guy called Denis Allwood.
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It comes from two words - venter, which means tummy, and loqui, which means to speak - in other words a ventriloquist was supposed to be a man who could speak by using his tummy in some way.
The Mystery of the Strange Bundle
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You know the old ventriloquist routine where the dummy doesn't want to go into the suitcase?
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Rather than serving as ventriloquists ' puppets for adult expression, Siegel's children seem to speak only for themselves.
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An offshoot of ventriloquist journalism, these are one of the more insidious forms of misinformation.
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Like two ventriloquists' dummies or two sides of the same coin, both master and slave are locked in association.
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The vagaries of a ventriloquist are a matter for roars of laughter.
A Padre in France
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In one corner was a ventriloquist's dummy, whose eyes seemed to follow you around.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ventriloquists' dummies are always slightly sinister, giving one the sense that they might really have a life of their own.
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A dialogue: we are not ventriloquists' dummies who cannot speak for ourselves.
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A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her -- she could not tell where.
Other Main-Travelled Roads
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In reality, ‘Johny’ was a ventriloquist's dummy, but few seemed to mind about that.
