ventriloquist

Example Sentences

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“This one is Lamb Chop,” he said, cradling a brittle rubber head that is all that remained of a hand puppet that was the television ventriloquist Shari Lewis’s sidekick.

From New York Times

But Gross was not always a world-traveling comedian, magician and “skilled ventriloquist.”

From Seattle Times

He held an ornate light-colored rubab, his fingers flitting across the fingerboard, his face moving as a ventriloquist would, as if he were channeling his voice through the instrument.

From Los Angeles Times

It held the temple of the “Speaking Cross,” an apparent ventriloquist’s trick that counselled the Mayas to rise up against their oppressors.

From Washington Times

It was on its back, gazing up like a murderous ventriloquist’s dummy.

From Washington Post