Example Sentences

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And I still really love that chapter about freestyling and battling for dummies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2025

With camouflage-clad dummies in the window and slogans like "cool and spicy" it aims to attract men and women to serve, but only gets a handful of callers each day.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

Why did they all stand like dummies, like people in a trance?

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier