ventriloquize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of ventriloquize
1835–45; ventriloqu(y) ( def. ) + -ize
Example Sentences
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Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2023
But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Why not experiment, mess around a little, throw your voice, ventriloquize, pick up one form and put it down and move on to another?
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
To engage in krivlyanya, the noun form of krivlyatsa, means to be artificial—to ventriloquize someone else instead of being yourself.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2017
And then he would ventriloquize once more to himself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
The site also featured several ventriloquized posts from Tiny Pinocchio telling his life story:
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
Priebus failed in his mission and doesn’t appear to have been ventriloquized anonymously before the real story came to light.
From Slate ● May 2, 2017
“Well,” Jacob’s better angel ventriloquized, “I’d love to see it someday.”
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2016
But in an opera in which Sulzer’s music is ventriloquized by the experimental sounds of Ms. Berkson, it sometimes sounded as if she were heckling herself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2012
And the woman came off victor, for Fritz ventriloquized no further, and the passengers had nothing to say, having no desire to get plastered up with freshly prepared pumpkin pie.
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When Leroy, explaining the philosophy behind his T-shirts, says he’s “forcing people to confront words and images they normally avoid,” you hear him ventriloquizing for Hunter.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
By ventriloquizing a woman to voice his most provocative punch lines, he seems to concede that he might not possess the authority to pull off the jokes, or the argument, on his own.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 8, 2019
“I would argue that, at best, it is reckless for a stranger to take a stab at ventriloquizing the dead,” Oliver points out.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2019
At the very least, it demonstrates that Lacey is capable of ventriloquizing well beyond the quirky-insightful voice of “Nobody is Ever Missing.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2017
But all further explanation was cut short by a horrible, unearthly noise, like a sepulchre ventriloquizing.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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