How To Use Mannikin In A Sentence
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This month’s exhibit was on the history of surgical instruments, and I glanced at the array of therapeutic weaponry—from crude, stone trepans exposing the cerebral tissue within a mannikin’s skull to lasers traversing arterial tunnels.
Over the Edge
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Saraquael was working there, putting a wingless mannikin into a small box.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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He had a sudden picture of himself sitting, a little mannikin, on a satin cushion.
COFFIN ON THE WATER
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The daughter, nine years old, and not above forty feet high, was very good natured, became my schoolmistress, and called me Grildrig, which imports in English, mannikin.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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_solopachium_, meaning a "mannikin eighteen inches high"; Saumasius proposes salopygium, a "wagtail"; several editors have _salaputium_, an indelicate word nurses used to children when they fondled them, so that the exclamation would mean, "what a learned little puppet!
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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A giant Golden Orb Weaver spider caught a chestnut-breasted mannikin bird in its web and made a leisurely lunch on the bird.
Boing Boing
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A robot dolphin is not a real dolphin, any more than a mannikin is a man.
Recycled Robot Fish Teach Japanese Children About Sealife | Inhabitat
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The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it.
Les Miserables
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Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind.
The Bolted Door
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As they went back to the register, Allie's gaze fell on a mannikin in the corner.
GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN
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Then Sir Buzz cooked the girdle-cakes, and the soldier's son ate three of them and a handful of sweets; but the one-span mannikin gobbled up all the rest, saying at each mouthful, 'You men have such terrible appetites – such terrible appetites!'
Tales of the Punjab
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As he watches, the outlines of a diminutive human being -- a mannikin or 'homunculus' -- become visible and rapidly gain distinct form.
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
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In Brussels stands the Mannikin Pis, a statue of a small boy having a wee.
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The bridge, as the mannikin told us, was a favourite place for people to commit suicide.
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This warden of all wardens has cracked the shell of this year's confidence, shaking the fragile mannikin of selfhood that you've patched together on the eve of becoming a doctor. '
45 entries from March 2008
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Condi playing piano for the Queen, Condi at the Kennedy Center awards - are we still paying this mannikin to be Secretary of State?
Clinton to Dine With Condoleezza Rice - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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With light and electron microscopic autoradiography, the origination and distribution of the newborn neurons in adult "critical-period" songbird, Striated Mannikin were studied.
