dolly

It’s telling that while Mr. Deakins takes pains to praise his longtime gaffer, key grip, dolly grip, best boy and more, he never bothers to define those roles for the lay reader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Brook can be excused for his flying drop of Jamal at gully, but Shoaib Bashir’s miss of the same man at long leg was a dolly.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

But, Eisenberg said, the scenes where they could ditch the dolly and just follow Culkin “sparkled.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

So it’s not just about the actors, it’s about the dolly grip, the focus puller, and you’ve got choreography going on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

So Zola goes away and returns later with the dolly that now has large round blue eyes with fluttery black lashes, a pink smalling mouth, and spots on her cheeks.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

And then they introduced camping, and we had to haul all of our bags from the car lot with dollies to our campsite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

A very soft dismissal too, as he dollies up a return catch to Colin Ingram's part-time leg-spin.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

Actual chefs and restaurateurs shop here, wheeling around their selections on big dollies.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

There’s a garden where goats pull 18th-century aristocrats on dollies, and a town square where gnomes drink beer and a ginormous rat plays the accordion.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Or she hoped he would sit and have tea with her and her dollies.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Liam Dawson was trapped plumb in front and Ryan Higgins dollied a catch to backward point as Spirit's batters tried and failed to get to grips with the top T20 wicket-taker of all time.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025

Though it was also a thrill when you dollied in on films like the world’s top box-office hit of 2020, a title that had never made it through the walls of my particular media silo.

From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2021

Double was on hand Tuesday as the Möller was delivered from a Lithonia organ builder and dollied back to center stage.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

Then on the Serb’s serve in what he must have thought were the concluding moments of his work for the day, Djokovic dollied the most complacent of drop shots a tad long.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015

Standard cinema technique is to use only one camera, which is dollied forward or backward for each different shot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The speech is executed in one take, with the camera dollying side to side as well as forward and backward, to capture all of Wright’s beats.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

The camera stays still for the most part, dollying in a bit now and again, panning with robotic precision to take in a vista.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017

The camera is shaking, shifting, rolling, zooming, dollying, fragmenting his performance to the point where it's pulverized, like a mirror broken into a thousand tiny pieces and then crushed into powder.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2011

The Louisville Lip just laughed and laughed as he conjured up the fight scene: a jampacked, 150,000-seat stadium, roving searchlights, TV cameras dollying in.

From Time Magazine Archive

In dollying it generally pays to burn the stone, as so much labour in crushing is thus saved.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)