Sentence examples for dummy up from inspiring English sources
verb
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
- The carpenters dummied up a set of simple props for the rehearsals.
Put a dummy up and booby-trap it,' " Mr. Schooling said.
"All I had to do was dummy up and watch and observe," he said.
Through energetic palaver about medical problems, cooking, and entertainment, the characters begin to reveal the fragility of their identities: we're looking at a collection of lost souls trying to dummy up a destiny for themselves.
This is a fairly clean puzzle with some nice, new entries (yes, including 35 Across, which we are still not talking about, thankyouverymuch): I especially liked DUMMY UP and ATE DIRT.
When I looked the word "dummy" up in a dictionary one definition was "pacifier", with the label showing its regional usage as "Brit".Alan ArthurMount Pleasant, South CarolinaRomania's recordSIR – In my dual capacity as faithful reader of your publication and economic counsellor to the prime minister of Romania, I am appalled by the carnivalesque depiction of my country in recent articles.
So I hollered down, 'Either tune the thing or turn it off!' John yelled to me, 'Dummy up.' I yelled, 'I'll take care of my cell and you take care of yours.' So he told me he'd see me in the yard.
There have also been plenty of images of supposed prototypes, mock-ups and dummy devices used by case manufacturers and others.
("Kings Row," 1942, with Ann Sheridan) THOMPSON -- "I know we're all dummies up here".
Mr. Schuette said "people were dummying up, phonying up petitions" in part by lifting signatures gathered in 2006.
He probably called in his deputy, Ed McConnell, "and between Forest and Ed, they dummied up some copy, like 'Jones for Sheriff.' Then they went back to the car to see if the stickers would fit".
