How to Use dolly in a Sentence

dolly

noun

• We'll need a dolly to move the refrigerator.
• Has a screen attached to her handlebar at the end of the dolly.
  — Scott King, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The park does have carts to haul your gear and dollies to transport firewood.
  — Sharyn Alden, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2018
• The computers and a dolly were just kind of like rigged to this machine.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• Note to launch at Putah Creek, a tow dolly helps plenty to get your kayak down to the water’s edge.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The frame works like a dolly to support and transport heavy trees, which can be stored upright or flat.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2022
• On Saturday morning, the agents were seen loading the items onto dollies and into the back of a white truck.
  — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2017
• Her body sways backward and forward like a rocking horse being pulled along on a dolly.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2020
• Throwing trashcans dollies, and stuff like that--broke one of the windows and cut Michael Chiesa really bad.
  — Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• Some of the dollies had spun 90 degrees, which I’m told would have been impossible for helicopters to adapt to.
  — Dave Kolpack, Twin Cities, 15 June 2019
• There’s one particular moment, there’s a shot, and Ryan had set up this tiny little dolly to do this dolly shot of his son and the megaphone and the dog.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 8 Sep. 2019
• A toolbox, dollies, copper pipes and a water heater were stolen from a residence.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2017
• The twins, who had been handcuffed to a dolly in their mother’s laundry room, waited to escape when Duncan and Terrell were asleep.
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Being bound to a mechanic’s dolly in the middle of a metal-heavy landfill does things to a man’s perspective.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The bookmakers pack up their computers and roll them away on dollies, leaving the lawn littered with betting slips.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• In all, Glendale Unified paid about $5,000 for the accessories, which includes dish racks, trays, utensils, dollies and a drying rack.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Glendale News-Press, 27 Aug. 2019
• There were no dollies, tripods, or other equipment — only a handheld camera with the actors.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2023
• Once inside the store, the men used a dolly to load an ATM into their truck, which troopers described in an online statement as a two-tone blue F-150 vehicle.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2022
• Neewer dolly For smooth, sideways motion—or to move a shot closer or further from without a zoom lens—get a dolly.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 19 Nov. 2019
• The grips, working in religious silence, position the camera on a dolly for a tracking shot.
  — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Mariner was resting on a rolling metal frame with at least six separate hydraulic dollies that had to be constantly adjusted as the frame moved to keep the ship level.
  — David Gutman, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2019
• The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023
• In the hilarious video, Gerber is seen pushing a dolly and is stocked with two cases of tequila and two cases of diapers.
  — Nicole Moschella, ajc, 7 June 2017
• Plano Police are searching for a burglar who cut the lock on a storage room at a facility in the 500 block of North Avenue and used a dolly to cart away several items inside.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 26 July 2021
• However, most Instacart shoppers are driving small commuter cars, not large trucks with dollies and other equipment to help move bulky items.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2017
• This year, the city and Albelo negotiated using dollies and golf carts to bring in equipment and to keep heavy foot traffic off the susceptible center of the field.
  — Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 17 May 2017
• Museum officials are using air dollies to move the statue through a series of doorways, windows, hairpin turns and tight squeezes.
  — USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• Russell, a B-Cam operator, watched the action unfold from a monitor on his dolly.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• Some of the options being discussed include the provision of equipment — cameras, lights, dollies — and legal services.
  — Alexandra Zavis, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Just hours after the fair ended its 26-day run, hundreds of workers with trucks, vans and dollies were swarming the seaside fairgrounds packing up equipment and heading for their next stop on the summer fair circuit.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024