dummy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Just over a month prior, China had test-fired a submarine ballistic missile with a dummy nuclear warhead with the capacity to reach the U.S. from Chinese coastal waters, raising alarms across the Pacific region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
On Sunday in Cardiff, Odegaard capped an all-action display with a brilliant third goal when his dummy left City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma on the floor.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
My dummy account, Mohammed, was a profile set to private and designed to look similar to the accounts of younger Moroccan people who were liking and commenting on the posts advertising crossings.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was time to turn the big dummy loose.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
![]()
The cart, constructed primarily from wood and styrofoam, carried dummies and was repeatedly transported back to the starting point for a continuous ride through a push and pull system.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
At the end of the film, Murphy engages in humorous conversations with his dummies of Pryor and Cosby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
For decades, Hiccup’s village of Berk has been looted by sheep-stealing dragons — and the dragons in turn have been captured and used as training dummies for future dragon-killers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
After a prolonged parade of pickle people, the dummies took on the guise of Andrew’s most famous ancestor, a guy in horn-rimmed glasses and a tweed sports coat named Peter Paul Peckleman.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
![]()
Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
However, up stepped star full-back and sevens captain Bianca Silva, who dummied and raced over half of the pitch to score.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
First, 20 year-old midfielder Lopez took his chance to impress on the big stage as he stroked home a side-footed finish on 15 minutes after Lewandowski dummied Raphinha's low cross.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
And once Jake Wardle dummied to set up his Warriors club-mate Smith for England's second try on 20 minutes, Laurent Frayssinous's young side struggled to respond.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023
In stoppage time, Tostao's through ball for Pele drew out Uruguay keeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, but instead of taking it around him, the forward dummied, allowing the ball to run past both him and his opponent.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022
Karim Benzema opened the scoring with a stunning effort, cutting in from the right wing before dummying his way past three defenders and slotting in.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022
The Tigers scrum-half spotted an understaffed blind-side as the hosts braced themselves for another driven maul off a line-out five metres out before darting, dummying and diving in for a fine score.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022
EST 09:29 4 min Toner takes this time and Ireland go right, Sexton looping and dummying to make a metre or so through the middle.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
A move started by Luke Eves's break ended with Jeremy Manning dummying over.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010
“Lieutenant, do you actually mean that you really don’t know what’s going on here, or are you just dummying up?”
From Unwise Child by Randall Garrett