How to Use rag doll in a Sentence
rag doll
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In the first round, Ed is throwing Kyle around like a rag doll.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
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Doro watched in shock as the rock sent his friend tumbling down the mountain like a rag doll.
—The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
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Morris in 2019 tossed Bertans to the court like a ragdoll and Bertans called Morris a name.
—Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
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The rag doll on the mantelpiece is supposed to fly, or maybe jump, to the chandelier.
—NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
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Austin Allen is still getting beaten around like a rag doll.
—Eric Bolin, ajc, 19 Sep. 2017
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Dotted lines, like the stitches on a rag doll, are tattooed down the center of his shaved head and chest, and on the sides of his neck.
—Dimiter Kenarov, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
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The bear grabbed him by his left wrist and shook him like a rag doll, hoisting him above the ground with her powerful jaws.
—Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2021
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The pimp whirls and thrashes both girls until their bodies lie like rag dolls on the bathroom floor.
—Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
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The song list has more than two dozen pieces in it, and several of them take you up out of yourself and fling you around like a rag doll.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2022
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Maybe the person in back got whipped against those concrete walls like a rag doll, but everybody went faster.
—al, 5 July 2022
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After a few seconds, the soldiers drag their prisoner like a rag doll to the middle of the street, pull off his shirt, and kick him.
—Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2019
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The initial shock of cold water gives way to weightless confusion as the force of the ocean current throws me around like a rag doll.
—Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
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On weekends all month, from 2 to 4 p.m., the Prospect Park Alliance invites children to visit the house to card wool, spin yarn and make rag dolls.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 17 May 2018
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Like clockwork, the Rebels went into Tuscaloosa and were manhandled like a rag doll, losing 42-21 in a game that wasn't even that close.
—Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
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In the photograph, the divers hurtle like rag dolls toward the water below.
—Anika Burgess, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
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There’s a window sill, and on it right now there is a rag doll, three monkeys, a Donald Duck, a bear, a dog, and another bear.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 3 May 2022
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The last match of the day is a nail-biter: As his winning move, Hakuho somehow lifts up his 293-pound opponent and drops him outside the ring like a rag doll.
—James Whitlow Delano, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, French and Spanish sailors were given life-sized rag dolls, called dames de voyage, to get them through their long sea journeys.
—Waldemar Januszczak, A-LIST, 1 July 2018
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Add in stitching details with black and white face paint to really drive home your rag doll creation.
—Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
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Suh harassed and chased Texas quarterback Colt McCoy all game long, at times slinging him around like a rag doll.
—Scooby Axson, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
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Laterrian bursts into the first round with high energy, and throws Tyler around like a rag doll.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2021
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Knowing his job as a blocker wasn’t finished, Neuville tossed Nebraska cornerback Chris Jones to the turf like a rag doll.
—Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2017
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At the same time, Ben is standing like a rag doll, accepting Riley’s affection.
—Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 16 Mar. 2023
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Isn’t the self just a jumbled of sensory input that is stitched together like some rag doll that looks terrible up close?
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2014
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The Longhorns’ offensive line also began unraveling like a tattered rag doll as the game wore on.
—Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Oct. 2021
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Ogbonnia has a lightning first step and is exceptional at rag dolling blockers and finding the ball.
—Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
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The body, insensitive to pain, goes completely limp, often falling to the ground as awkwardly as rag doll, limbs splayed, head thrown back.
—Jeff Wise, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010
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But Pitt is game for just diving in and letting loose – as well as getting stabbed, punched, bitten and thrown around like a rag doll – as a steadying presence when the film purposefully goes off the rails.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
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The Baltimore County resident is married and has three children in addition to her 2-year-old ragdoll cat, Munchkin.
—Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 11 Oct. 2022
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Bobby’s transformation into Bobbie has been accomplished at the cost of a few ribs, turning the character into a rag doll.
—New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
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