mannequin

Example Sentences

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Bill Gates’s employees have spent years carefully cultivating his image—down to keeping a custom-size mannequin to test his outfits for different days of the week.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

She spends much of her time practicing on mannequin heads in her childhood room.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Through throwback posts, people have been traveling back to the year when dog and flower crown Snapchat filters, Instagram eyebrows, the mannequin challenge and the Chainsmokers were everywhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Students at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology carefully draped a mannequin in traditional Korean funeral cloth, smoothing the fabric as if over real skin, before gently lowering it into a coffin.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

I felt like a mannequin, squeezing my features into an expression that had nothing to do with what I was feeling on the inside.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler