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
I asked the questions, and was of course supposed to ventriloquize the answers, and, thanks to the glassy stare of my doll, her replies almost convinced the audience I was doing so.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
At the same time, former stars of the Follies relive memories and stumble through old numbers, magically ventriloquized from Broadway’s past in the Sondheim songs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
His verified Twitter account, however, ventriloquized his criticism of Sen. Kamala Harris.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2020
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
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
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
On the contrary, Franklin’s decision to begin with the pretext of ventriloquizing Cooke dramatizes the process by which she makes the song her own.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2016
He is their mouth-piece, not they his: what they say is never Shakespeare ventriloquizing, but is to all intents and purposes their own.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
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