Sentence examples for dummy and it from inspiring English sources

He expected the king to be in the dummy, and it was.

So I see Mel's mouth move like a ventriloquist's dummy and it makes me lose my legs laughing.

Yet lo and behold, here's Wesley Stace's overcrowded but entertaining By George, about ventriloquists and their "boys" (the term they prefer to "dummy"), and it manages to be touching and engrossing rather than just disconcertingly odd.

Horror novels had been banned in my family since I was seven, when an older kid on the bus let me borrow his copy of "Night of the Living Dummy," and it gave me such terrible nightmares that I insisted on sleeping with the lights on for a week.

That long-long-long-ago summer featured pretty much your basic widespread sports conniption as thugs threatened his parents' northeast London house, his parents hired security, fans wrote mean letters, a soccer website implored fans to taunt him for as long as possible, up went the dummy, and it all got so ornery that the Mirror tabloid started a "Stop the Hate" campaign.

It was from a kick-off and Aaron Smith threw a dummy and I bought it.

"I'm no dummy, and I thought it would be a curiosity for a production company if we could tell our clients to 'Follow your nose to B1L Productions,' " Mr. Rodgers said.

Name a house feature, be it rough stone sinks, driftwood chairs or collections of dressmakers' dummies, and it seems that Mr. de Chabaneix, a design specialist for magazines like Elle and Marie Claire, has found at least three contrasting interpretations somewhere.

The woman nodded at a mannequin and said, 'There it is.' " So Mr. Mitchell took the tie off the dummy and sold it to the couple.

Through being playful about taking dummy and putting it in and out, Silvana is able to communicate a strong motive of having it back through saying twice "mmm".

He led the spade queen from dummy and ducked it around to West's king.