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 ventriloquy In A Sentence
- He made an attempt at ventriloquy, saying in a voice to sound farther off than it was, "Come in. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
- Roxy and Virgie, in their clean Sunday suits, loitered around the bridge behind the store, or strayed a little way up the Manokin brook, hearing the mocking-bird rend his breast in all the ventriloquy of genius. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
- That will give him more time for his other job - ventriloquy and polyphony (sound effects). TheState.com: The Buzz
- This is a remarkable act of ventriloquy -- a cup speaking on behalf of a person -- but it's not really an expression of thanks. SI.com
- I once tried to explain the concept of radio ventriloquy, vis-a-vis Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, to a bunch of Hong Kong students ....... Blimey O' Riley
- SHAKESPEARE: _ (In dignified ventriloquy) _ 'Tis the loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind. Ulysses
- In the name of mankind, treat Mr. Cao with ventriloquy. Think Progress » GOP New Orleans Congressman: Health Reform ‘At A Par With Slavery’ Because Of Nonexistent Abortion Coverage
- If the canon manifests itself to Clare as an enchanted silence, the act of writing commits him to ventriloquy or impersonation, making Hessey's advice "to write in your own natural Style" (qtd. in CL 200) altogether untenable. Like
- Regardless, the two new women we meet, Kakuka (the nosebleeder) and Teiiku (a short little girl who carries a doll on her head whom she gives voice to with ventriloquy), are on their way to find Sousou, since they are strategists and wish to offer their services to the Lesbian Army (no, that's not the real name for Sousou's faction, but it fits). Mania News Feed
