How to Use body double in a Sentence

body double

noun
  • That the princess in the paparazzi shot is not a body double?
    Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The photos in the post are not proof he was replaced by a body double.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Obama and Joe Biden might have staged the killing of Osama bin Laden with a body double.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Was that a body double or was that entirely you in the scene?
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Swayze refused to use a body double during the scene when the pair dance on a log over a ravine.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • For more, including how to find the right body double for you, check out the link in today's show notes.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Even his body double was big, but like Shaq still was bigger than him.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 30 June 2018
  • In order to film the scenes where the twins appear at the same time, there was a body double, Susan Henning.
    Tolly Wright, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
  • For the record, there is no Melania Trump body double, but that didn't stop the blathering about it.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Perhaps she’d been killed and would be replaced by a body double.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
  • One video shared this week suggested that Biden was in fact a body double.
    WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Having a body double also meant the prep time was doubled to create the hair and make-up for both men.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The trailer reveals how the film pulls off the trick, with Kennedy Irwin serving as a body double for the actor.
    Wilson Chapman, Variety, 13 July 2022
  • The pregnant Meet Cute star, 37, shared a snap of her twinning with body double Monette Moio.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Then a very decent Jackman body double walks by in the background.
    Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The body double creates light social pressure to achieve a goal.
    Nick Keppler, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Then, a very decent Jackman body double walks by in the background.
    Vulture, 10 July 2023
  • But within minutes there was talk of a swap, a body double, a plan hatched to get Epstein to Guantanamo Bay.
    Glamour, 13 Aug. 2019
  • From her time as an Olympian to her body double gigs, here's everything to know about Livingston.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This body double is played by Golden Globe winner Glenn Close.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The highlight of the movie comes later in the same scene, when Stone and Gosling re-create Dirty Dancing’s most famous moment (with the help of a body double).
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • Bowen Yang plays the director and Armisen plays a crew member named Raymond, who is tasked with filling in for the star’s body double.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Instead of lifeless white body doubles, the brand will now show new, diverse mannequins on their sales floors.
    Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Penelope Cruz was pregnant during On Stranger Tides, and her sister helped her out as a body double for wide shots.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Ritter shot his side of the scenes with a body double, while Nélisse was kept away from even listening to what was happening on set.
    Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
  • Ivy Snitzer, then 20 years old, was hired to be Paltrow’s body double for the film, which used close-ups of her arms, torso, and thighs in scenes where Paltrow’s face didn’t need to be shown.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The naked bunch of survivors walk out and Orlean (whose bare butt is a body double, for the record, not Streep's) goes to touch a cute and colorful ostrich-like creature.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2021
  • At least, that’s the rationale online sleuths and jokesters are using to argue that the first lady is using a body double.
    Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • His co-star (or body double, perhaps?) managed to keep his clown makeup pristine, though the same can’t be said for his dirty red suit and yellow vest.
    Zoe Guy, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The then-aspiring actress was just 20 when she was cast as Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in the Farelly Brothers' rom-com.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2023

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