[
UK
/vɛntɹˈɪləkwˌɪzəm/
]
NOUN
- the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
How To Use ventriloquism In A Sentence
- Some prank-pulling member of her parish was using ventriloquism. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
- Should pantomime, ventriloquism, and verbiage be mixed?
- Some prank-pulling member of her parish was using ventriloquism. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
- Some prank-pulling member of her parish was using ventriloquism. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
- This political ventriloquism allows the writers ‘both a community and a coherent sense of self - however fictive or imaginative - from which to act and write’.
- Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup. Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan
- Around this time he had his first puppet made and began to learn ventriloquism.
- Luckily, the discovery of a latent talent for ventriloquism was soon to change his seemingly tragic fate.
- It is a mix of wit, ventriloquism, shadow play and mime.
- He can lecture at some length on the origins of the language, and it's only the mention of ventriloquism that prompts him to digress again.