rag doll

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Recent Examples on the Web Catherine O'Hara pulls double duty as the blue-skinned, Frankenstein-esque rag doll Sally and the crafty trick-or-treater Shock. Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023 Most years, Santa delivered a rag doll her mother handcrafted. Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023 Catherine O'Hara as Sally O'Hara voices Sally, Jack's love interest and a stitched rag doll creation of Dr. Finkelstein. Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023 Butkus would hit runners high, wrap them up and drive them to the ground like a rag doll. Andrew Seligman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for rag doll 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rag doll
Noun
  • Those in the audience who had been picturing tiny little hand puppets were blown away by the larger-than-life size of the animals.
    April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Humans are able to learn from very few examples, meaning that even a single encounter can solidify the connection between a silver hand puppet and the phonemes that comprise robot.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The set opens to reveal a doll house with multiple scenes kids will recognize from the movies.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • This night will honor the 65th anniversary of the iconic doll and more contestants from Group B will be revealed.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Below the hole in the ceiling were carts and two-wheeled dollies.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 July 2024
  • The building will break from the basement foundation before it’s placed on large hydraulic dollies to move to the new location.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2024
Noun
  • Borrowing a bit of that reality shine, Marvel shared their own take on the Housewives, featuring some of its most popular leading ladies — and Pepper Potts — all as action figures brought to life via stop-motion animation, as the gays have been doing for ages.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • McFarlane Toys also produced a series of action figures.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 25 July 2024
Noun
  • The sculpture is held up by a crane, and some people see it as a marionette, eliciting both laughs, criticisms, and discussions.
    Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The piece has been called both a statue and a marionette.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Teflon seal around a poppet, a thruster valve, expanded and started extruding out as the thruster headed up.
    Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the Old World, hexing your enemies required use of candle magick, mysterious sigils or poppet dolls impaled by needles; in 2021, Nessa Barrett turns hexes into dark-pop hits.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • Moving the figurines of Williams and his wife, Helen Lasichanh, for a brief moment to the front of Notre-Dame and then to the Louvre (definitely not to scale) felt like my inner kid taking over.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2024
  • This figurine perfectly embodies her sharp style and helps complete any set dedicated to this series.
    Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • During a half century at Dolby, honoree Allen worked closely with Ray Dolby to advance motion picture sound, for which the pair earned Oscar statuettes in 1988.
    Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
  • To commemorate his service, the CDC placed a statuette of him in its museum in Atlanta.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

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“Rag doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rag%20doll. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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