How To Use Dummy In A Sentence

We stood our ground, revised the dummy a couple of times and appointed a printer.
Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
Its author believes that Border's bankruptcy and massive store shutdown is a result of the dummying down of books and America's ultimate good taste. Laura Munson: Books Without Borders
I have seen everything you listed except the department store dummy, but would add paint cans, freon cannisters, old TV's, and other stuff that are hazmat if you try to take them to the dump! One Trigger, Or Two?

One plausible scenario, he said, was that he had indeed threatened the cops with a dummy gun.
Or the complete opposite - you table an awful dummy and partner makes an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
So over the next year, she pored over magazines, drafted an editorial plan and put together a dummy issue from published magazine pages and pictures that she liked.
Slowly, Dummy regains both his voice and his confidence, and finally, in a fairy-tale ending, even his identity when King Richard recognizes him as his long-lost godson.
In one study, led by Dr. Alejandro Hoberman of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, nearly 300 infected toddlers were given ten days of treatment with either dummy pills or an antibiotic called amoxicillin-clavulanate. Reuters: Top News
But here, the longsword is the one that totally decapitated the dummy. TV for Gaming: Deadliest Warrior « Geek Related
Lee sought to calm the public by saying the Chinese missiles only carried dummy warheads.
Other volunteers who were given a dummy pill had no significant change. The Sun
Philip's mother, Carol, said that instead of a dummy he was given a sheepdog whistle as a baby, and he's never looked back.
This was done by making some dummy rounds with the bullet seated way out and then gradually increasing the depth until the gun would just barely close.
Please start hiding malware of viruses in dummy links on google to teach a lesson or something like that. Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing
The Kiltimagh native joined legends of the entertainment industry with a life-size waxwork dummy of the music manager.
He just walked around like a dummy with the rest of us with an awkward scope on his rifle.
There were also two dummy rocket propelled grenades and a dismantled self-loading rifle.
In the corner to the right of the window, through which the moon pales, is a tailor's dummy in hessian.
A dummy bolt is in place in the receiver so headspace is set at the same time.
At trick ten, declarer led his singleton club and finessed dummy 's ten. Times, Sunday Times
If it loses you are going to need the club finesse and one ruff in the dummy. Times, Sunday Times
Declarer won in hand and cashed the remaining top hearts discarding clubs from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
It's fairly obvious of her interest in him and he's no dummy, so maybe he's ignoring her to protect himself?
Look at the blocking club pips, all higher in dummy. Times, Sunday Times
I don't care what anyone says, you cannot be a dummy if you have won the European Championship, even although he did it with top German players, but in Scotland there are no grey areas.
I mean, the only thing worse then having a wax dummy, is having a wax dummy of a ventriloquist dummy that looks like a clown!
Declarer has no entry back to dummy and is forced to concede 2 Heart tricks.
The audience bursts into ecstatic applause as she struggles to get through a door carrying a dummy. Times, Sunday Times
The article also employs a control parameter: a dummy variable.
A capable ruler, he is no dummy, though he sometimes waits too long before taking action.
‘We use their counter-top display that has one of their lights on a dummy gun,’ he said.
dummy up the books that are to be published
When dummy has a singleton in the suit partner leads, the suit preference signal comes into play. Times, Sunday Times
East won the king and returned the eight of hearts which passed to dummy's ten. Times, Sunday Times
It was the falseness of it that Franny and I noticed: the mannequin's chipped face, the obvious wig, and the stiff, unfleshly bust of the dummy — the fake bosom, the still chest, the rigid waist. The Hotel New Hampshire
Only a dummy would ignore the safety warnings.
Parents are told to stop dummy use after a year. The Sun
The most incongruous sight of all in the "House of Resistance", as Gaddafi called the bombed-out building, was several dummy missiles hanging from the ceiling as if they had just fallen from an American bomber -his idea of a memorial to the little girl, perhaps. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Declarer won dummy's king and sought to ruff hearts in dummy. Times, Sunday Times
Could a ventriloquist's dummy have anything to do with it? The Sun
Scientists at the laboratory will carry out a study to gain a clearer picture of the dummy's effectiveness.
The Defender on the Declarer's left leads the card to the first trick, after which the cards in the dummy are exposed and sorted by suit.
The finishing touch was a dummy clasped in her gloved hand. The Sun
Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
An opening heart lead might appear to do irreparable damage as it removes a dummy entry. Times, Sunday Times
The hand opposite each player is their dummy, but they cannot look at it until after the bidding.
Such dummy assets were in a $1.6 billion collateralized debt obligation, or CDO, that is the focus of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rating Firms' Asset Game
West covers with the king and you win dummy's ace. Times, Sunday Times
A child who is able to argue with such infallible logic is perhaps a tad old to be toting a dummy in public.
A young engineer named Howland had been in charge of the development work, but Wally rearranged his forces so as to let each dummy entryman handle the claim entered in his name. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North
The fork relied upon declarer having a club winner to discard a heart from dummy if you ducked the heart. Times, Sunday Times
VIGUERIE: Well I guarantee you, the Federal Election Commission has got them what we call seeded, salted, and they have what we call dummy names in there. America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power
He'd mesmerised the home defence with a beautiful dummy before picking up a short pass and slotting the ball past the helpless Roy Carroll.
He points it at them and uses it as a ventriloquist's dummy, throwing his voice into it and waggling it about to make it look as though they're talking.
Across is the ending as declarer led dummy's winning ten of hearts. Times, Sunday Times
The key play is to rise with dummy's ace at trick one. Times, Sunday Times
If it loses you are going to need the club finesse and one ruff in the dummy. Times, Sunday Times
The train driver said he had just left New Pudsey station in the dawn light when he saw what he thought was a tailor's dummy between the railway line and the embankment ahead of him.
The bidding is over and partner tables their dummy. Times, Sunday Times
Before we started we did a dummy run.
For the next few minutes it took the place of a wooden dummy, receiving more than it's share of abuse.
Is this the result of a dummying down of America or listening to Fox News and right wing talk radio? Bennet Kelley: Taking on the GOP's "Fairy Tale Politics"
His father fired a few rounds into the plastic dummy.
At the very least, if they end up dropping this, keep at least Job and Franklin, the ventriloquist dummy because if they just spun off on their own, I would be so happy.
I gave him another stare, did a bit of a dummy, and blasted the ball as hard as I could.
The ball was passed wide and a dummy by Chapman created the gap for him to scoot over for his opening try of the season.
It appears that an extra element *-e has been added to this absolutive set at an early stage of PIE, perhaps to use it for transitive verbs by marking it with a dummy object nb. Archive 2007-12-01
Declarer will surely now play another heart but dummy is squeezed. Times, Sunday Times
The American servicemen who dropped a dummy bomb on East Yorkshire have returned to flying after an investigation into the blunder, it was revealed yesterday.
I set up what they call a dummy corporation, John McKenzie helped me to do it. A Red Death
And, to ensure against dummy candidates, the touts entertained only students with valid admission cards.
Declarer will surely now play another heart but dummy is squeezed. Times, Sunday Times
If it loses you are going to need the club finesse and one ruff in the dummy. Times, Sunday Times
This is part of his insightful and terrifyingly personal series of poems from a ventriloquist's dummy to its puppeteer.
I don't let him pretend (as some cartoonists do) that he's just a dummy.
‘There’ is used as the subject of an existential sentence in standard English while it is used in most other situations in which a ‘dummy’ or expletive subject is necessary.
Yet the only dummy entry is the ace of clubs. Times, Sunday Times
Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
Looking at my hand and dummy, they can only be? Times, Sunday Times
I realized that if this were a bad horror movie, it'd be a ventriloquist dummy in its little suitcase, urging me to go out and set fires.
The Lake Erie's radar system tracked the dummy warhead and guided the interceptor to collide with it more than 100 miles above the ocean.
He seemed an unpromising ventriloquist's dummy. Times, Sunday Times
In multivariate analyses, dummy variables are used to control for gender.
For infants who did not receive a dummy, alternate soothing methods were promoted (for example, facilitation of hand to mouth action promoting self quieting behaviour).
Rescue teams this week staged a drill where they freed a dummy buried in the sand as a public warning ahead of the summer hols. The Sun
The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
The key play is to rise with dummy's ace at trick one. Times, Sunday Times
If West ruffs with his jack, dummy overruffs; if West ruffs with the ace, dummy discards.
But you can count four higher cards in dummy (? Times, Sunday Times
You now need to cross to dummy to finesse? Times, Sunday Times
In a sense, we're dummying down riesling while making things more complicated. International Riesling Foundation: What's the Point?
Either way, the second dummy is then exposed and the play continues as in Double Dummy Bridge.
You now need to cross to dummy to finesse? Times, Sunday Times
People often envision a costume designer as a sewing whiz with a mouthful of pins and a faithful dressmaker's dummy.
Away goes your last heart as you ruff in dummy. Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday, the Pentagon claimed success for its missile shield, after an interceptor missile hit a dummy warhead over the Pacific.
Because the hooks are embedded in the kernel and are called even before a security module is installed, this structure is initialized to a set of functions provided by a dummy security module.
A revoke occurs when a player, other than dummy, holding one or more cards of the suit led, plays a card of a different suit. Auction of To-day
This was music to McClellan's ears, because it meant that the fighters would be using dummy weapons and would thus need to rearm at the tugs in order to combat his fleet.
The redesigned dummy will be subjected to a new full-frontal crash test in which a car is driven at 30mph into a concrete wall. Times, Sunday Times
And when you say towing mannequins, is that mannequin in the sense of, say a store dummy, basically a pretend human being?
The baby was clutching his dummy tightly in his grubby fist.
The fork relied upon declarer having a club winner to discard a heart from dummy if you ducked the heart. Times, Sunday Times
A team of Canadian scientists gave either an active drug, apomorphine, or a dummy drug to a group of six Parkinson's patients.
People often envision a costume designer as a sewing whiz with a mouthful of pins and a faithful dressmaker's dummy.
The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
If South discarded on the diamond, preserving his trumps till the bitter end, declarer would throw the club from his hand and lead anything from dummy, claiming the last three tricks with the ♥Q, ♥J and ♥9. How to lose a sure trump trick
Now, pushed to produce a dummy for potential advertisers, Sutton had started interviewing and recruiting journalists.
Attached to the dummy is an adjustable frame that holds your ski boot via a clip such as those used with clip-on crampons.
Nobody likes a know-it-all, but nobody likes a dummy either.
In Rugby, you can pull a dummy, kick the ball up and under, or a grubber kick, or a long sideline punt.
Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
Family members visited and brought toys but she was confined to an isolation unit with her dummy to suck for comfort.
Perhaps you can guess what declarer led from dummy at trick three. Times, Sunday Times
West could only discard, so declarer ruffed in dummy then led the king of clubs. Times, Sunday Times
Our featured declarer will not have been overjoyed to see his dummy - seemingly completely useless. Times, Sunday Times
She is many things - venal, arrogant, authoritarian, ruthless - but she is no dummy.
Declarer could now score the last three tricks with dummy's? Times, Sunday Times
He usually hit the chest, and our teeth bared as the hilt of the bayonet quivered in the dummy.
Back in my Girl Scout days, I spent some happy evenings learning how to give mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions to our resuscitation dummy, Fred, to earn my First Aid badge. Kiss goodbye to the kiss of life?
In case East has a doubleton honor or two honors, Cy should play dummy's ace at Trick One. Bridge
The dummy is wearing a shirt - claret slubbed silk, wide collar, double cuffs.
To me, this is the sort of person who has taken about as much personal responsibility for mental development as a ventriloquist's dummy.
South threw a heart and won in dummy, but East got the king of hearts at the end. Bridge
In 2002, also in the Brazilian league, Coritiba striker Jabá was cautioned for dummying and dribbling; the referee claimed he was provoking opponents. Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge
He had this dummy he could use to go left or right. Times, Sunday Times
West covers with the king and you win dummy's ace. Times, Sunday Times
In this case, your plan will be to play a cross-ruff, by trumping outside suits in both your hand and dummy's.
Use dummy plugs to cover unused outlets - if these are not readily available, simply buy a new plug and insert into the outlet.
For many years, in all weathers, a Swanndri-wearing tailor's dummy stood proudly outside his shop to show durability.
You may think you know the location of the lockbox, and maybe you do or maybe that's a decoy or a dummy lock box.
From a position close to the York line he took play right and then went left to dummy his way over for an unconverted try.
A dummy camera was set up earlier this year to prevent cars using the bus gate.
Who are you calling a dummy? Times, Sunday Times
Of course I should have probably looked through the spy hole because staring me in the face was a ventriloquist's dummy.
Nearby a store dummy was wearing the camiknickers, so I asked a sales assistant to hold up the black teddy, to compare the items.
So like a dummy, I go through there and pull out this date book.
This prematurely squeezes dummy, and only by discarding a high heart can declarer still survive. Times, Sunday Times
He had this dummy he could use to go left or right. Times, Sunday Times
The player on the left of the dummy hand plays the dummy's cards.
The use of dummy strongholds and targets can minimize fire impact of an attacking enemy force 20 percent to 30 percent.
The dealer can swap her hand or the dummy if she wishes. Times, Sunday Times
My copy of you was very near perfect but lets face a dummy is a dummy.
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist and the debug event will fire on the temporary session-level dummy version of the event and will run the prex command. Planet Sun
With a revolver, simply give the cylinder a spin so that you do not know whether to expect a live or a dummy round.
Bosses said that the dummy's outer casing can become detached and cause a choking hazard. The Sun
He sponged up meanings for finesse, rubber and dummy. Three-handed Bridge
I really don't like this method since I have a horror of one of the dummy rounds getting mixed up with my hunting ammunition.
The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
It's scary . Who deep-six such a dummy here! May be a body. Report to cops.
The two teams have to dig out a raft, row to a pier, rescue a dummy while being pummeled by some random camo-faced dude on the pier ( 'pummeled' only has one 'l'? let's make a note of that), row back and then drag the raft and dummy along the beach while Harvey Walden IV fires a water cannon at them. Maximum Awesome
As to the settler, I have one policy -- to make it as easy as possible under the law for the bonafide settler to get a home, and to make it just as difficult as possible for the dummy entryman to get land, which he will sell out to monopolies. Letters of Franklin K. Lane
Potgeiter was into everything, a typical South African loose forward, while De Jongh, a late replacement for the gated Butch James, played with an assurance that belied the fact he was making his debut, recovering from an early crunching tackle by Jamie Roberts to take his score with aplomb, dummying his way between Stephen Jones and Matthew Rees. South Africa again expose Wales' soft centre in their Cardiff backyard
We control for unobserved heterogeneity across townships using a set of dummy variables representing the 15 townships in the county.
A convicted robber, he uses a dummy firm to bankroll the trolling factory. The Sun
I mean, what did they think little Charlotte was going to do: storm the front benches and hold the leader of the house hostage at dummy-point until she achieved free rusks for all?
The key play is to rise with dummy's ace at trick one. Times, Sunday Times
South could have survived by ruffing with dummy's spade six and running the spade jack, but he extravagantly ruffed with dummy's jack, then played a spade to his queen.
Why should he not play dummy manilla, which is a silent game. The New Book of Martyrs
the lead was in the dummy
I had a ventriloquist's dummy and used to do magic shows for the family.
The baby was clutching his dummy tightly in his grubby fist.
A foreigner arrived foreign country other place, if can't its language is a deaf person and add dummy for the good elephant.
When he agrees to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge for a bet, it is only because a dummy will be substituted at the crucial moment.
The dressmaker's dummy and a blue wing chair that is used repeatedly are symbolic of the upper-middle-class venues of Mammy's travail.
A crucial ventriloquist's dummy is hideously mutilated.
Just to say that if any of you feel like doing your party piece towards the end of tomorrow's dinner do feel free, and bring guitar, ventriloquist's dummy or whatever…
Use this scoring method for you and the dummy players west, north, and east players.
“Half a dummy reversal and half an endplay,” observed Oscar the Owl. VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB
Winning in dummy, declarer could now have made the contract by finessing the ♣10, but he tried to cash another spade instead. Hope for the ordinary player
Is this ventriloquist a dummy - or funny? The Sun
And when you say towing mannequins, is that mannequin in the sense of, say a store dummy, basically a pretend human being?
His need to lecture his readers sometimes forces his protagonist into the role of the ventriloquist's dummy - and too often we can see the master's lips moving.
When it comes to movie marketing, he is no dummy.
If you can, avoid using a dummy and discourage thumb sucking.
South plays the winning King of Diamonds, ruffs a Diamond, and plays three rounds of Spades ending in the dummy.
I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you!
First, the experimenters tested three unpowered dummy missiles with ballast to simulate the N-69.
Before you make up a batch of reloads, make a dummy round first to ensure your die settings are correct and the round feeds and the bolt closes normally.
In today's deal, South played low from dummy on the first spade, ruffed in his hand and started to set up dummy's diamonds. Bridge
Typically folks would prepare a dummy cartridge leaving the bullet seated to a shallow depth, smoke it with a candle, and then seat the dummy round in the chamber.
The collision wrecked the window display - including a dummy dressed as Elvis - and caused thousands of pounds of damage.
I've got her all excited about the sport, and use a dummy with a pheasant skin strapped to it for retrieving practice. What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks.
Within minutes of microblogging his rage, Wayne was able to calm down by posting a picture of his pug, which unremarkably looks strikingly similar to its owner, sucking on a dummy apparently belonging to son Kai. Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
An art project fell foul of the false arm of the law last week as Gardai ‘arrested’ a dummy which has been posed as a beggar around Sligo town centre.
Your blog, which reflects in a very clever way about motherhood issues does more good to women than this kind of elitist, guilt-inducing, spiteful and caricatural depiction of dummy motherhood. Who’s The Dummy, Mummy? | Her Bad Mother
He'd set up dummy's nine but had no way to get back there. Times, Sunday Times
Many parents don't like the idea of their babies using a pacifier or dummy but give them one anyway just to get some peace, believing that pacifiers are essentially harmless.
East won the king and returned the eight of hearts which passed to dummy's ten. Times, Sunday Times
By fitting the dummy front to the machine the details of cards used could be recorded, while the camera captured the PIN number.
He may also choose to suck his thumb, or perhaps a dummy.
I think people don't use ‘it’ for exactly that reason Todd - it's so often an expletive or a dummy pronoun that it would get confusing.
Who are you calling a dummy? Times, Sunday Times
As she is undressed and her wedding veil placed on the tailor's dummy, the camera pans up from her naked back to her body in the photograph.
Bozo The Neoclown says: so, jdummy. what if it were barney frank who shouted to old ginny foxx “shut the hell up, you old foghorn leghorn sounding beyotch”? Think Progress » Neugebauer Won’t Apologize To House For Outburst That His GOP Colleague Calls ‘More Wrong’ Than Joe Wilson’s
Declarer now plays ace and a low club from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
If they are unhappy they are given a pacifier or binky, not a dummy.
An American fighter dropped a dummy bomb on East Yorkshire by mistake, the US Air Force has confirmed.

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