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dolly

[dol-ee] / ˈdɒl i /
NOUN
handtruck
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It’s telling that while Mr. Deakins takes pains to praise his longtime gaffer, key grip, dolly grip, best boy and more, he never bothers to define those roles for the lay reader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Head had completed his third century of the series and was on 121 when Jacks dropped a dolly on the leg-side boundary.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

“I put it on a dolly and poke holes in it and then pour hot water into it so the water goes onto the ice,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

There is a dolly that tracked from the apartment to where the Uber comes and then back to the apartment again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

As Chloe and I walked them around the hologram battlements, Mr. Reilly stepped over to the dolly and carted off the kid’s new toy or appliance or whatever to apartment 723.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

And then they introduced camping, and we had to haul all of our bags from the car lot with dollies to our campsite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

A very soft dismissal too, as he dollies up a return catch to Colin Ingram's part-time leg-spin.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

There are different types of dollies, including one designed for moving appliances; a hand truck made for moving boxes; and a flat floor dolly made for moving furniture.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

There’s a garden where goats pull 18th-century aristocrats on dollies, and a town square where gnomes drink beer and a ginormous rat plays the accordion.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

I wanted to look at the dollies because I wanted to choose one for Christmas.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Liam Dawson was trapped plumb in front and Ryan Higgins dollied a catch to backward point as Spirit's batters tried and failed to get to grips with the top T20 wicket-taker of all time.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025

Though it was also a thrill when you dollied in on films like the world’s top box-office hit of 2020, a title that had never made it through the walls of my particular media silo.

From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2021

Double was on hand Tuesday as the Möller was delivered from a Lithonia organ builder and dollied back to center stage.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

Then on the Serb’s serve in what he must have thought were the concluding moments of his work for the day, Djokovic dollied the most complacent of drop shots a tad long.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015

Standard cinema technique is to use only one camera, which is dollied forward or backward for each different shot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The speech is executed in one take, with the camera dollying side to side as well as forward and backward, to capture all of Wright’s beats.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

The camera stays still for the most part, dollying in a bit now and again, panning with robotic precision to take in a vista.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017

The camera is shaking, shifting, rolling, zooming, dollying, fragmenting his performance to the point where it's pulverized, like a mirror broken into a thousand tiny pieces and then crushed into powder.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2011

And some are quick visual puns, taking place in the corner of the frame or with the camera dollying past them, not seeming to care whether you catch them or not.

From Time Magazine Archive

In dollying it generally pays to burn the stone, as so much labour in crushing is thus saved.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson


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