dummy

Example Sentences

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One of the director’s frequent visual cutaways is to a knight-outfitted dummy the children build on a picturesque spot, lashed to a stake.

From Los Angeles Times

The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.

From BBC

"It looked almost as if it was a tailor's dummy lying there, it didn't really register with me."

From BBC

“You big dummy!” is about as clever as their remarks to one another ever get.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The earth is a huge ecosystem,” Akira’s dad said, like he was explaining it to a dummy.

From Literature