How to Use dollhouse in a Sentence

dollhouse

noun
  • She’s trapped in her own dollhouse.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Her love of sacs with dollhouse proportions is one for the ages.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 21 July 2021
  • In my own dollhouse, my dolls are not forced to improvise.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There’s even a little dollhouse.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Not a real house, nor a dollhouse — but a birdhouse.
    — Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The house on the right is more like a dollhouse, with bright pink and purple accents.
    — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
  • To the left, a pink child’s dollhouse sits by the wall—reminders of the child who had once lived there.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 July 2025
  • Jacques rolled these up, as if packing the rugs in a dollhouse, and wound them into coils.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • Could a minuscule king and his babies come live in a dollhouse?
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The Attic There are dark things at work in the dollhouse, too.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This 5-star toy comes with a van that turns into a dollhouse, plus two adorable cat figures.
    — Kate Tully Ellsworth, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Margaret, now an adult, came across the antique dollhouse in her basement.
    — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • On many a street corner, often under a shade tree, stood what looked like a dollhouse on stilts.
    — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Flows are narcoleptic, drums are sporadic, and melodies are soft enough to live in a dollhouse.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The dollhouse was in a place of honor on a dark-wooden dining room table.
    — Jenice Armstrong, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Too early to say, but Flora’s dollhouse is a replica of the manor.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • He’s made a dollhouse full of Españolans for him and Whitney to play with.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Where they're placed in the dollhouse always relates to everybody in the manor.
    — Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The dollhouse opens for playtime and includes a top handle for transport.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 7 Feb. 2025
  • All smiles because Alex Drake is locked away in that creepy dollhouse in France.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Dream demonstrates her point, grabbing a toy Jell-O dish from her dollhouse.
    — Marina Watts, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Think about using your old toys, like a pickup truck, a wooden boat or even a small, open-to-one-side dollhouse.
    — Clare Miers, star-telegram, 5 Apr. 2018
  • What role did Flora's dolls and dollhouse play in the storytelling?
    — Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Fathers were even known to build doll-sized coffins for their daughters, the way a dad might build a dollhouse for a kid today.
    — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The cabinet keeps Don's toys tidy behind closed doors, and the dollhouse was a lucky thrift store find.
    — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Inside the store, the complete dollhouse set spans the length of a set of escalators.
    — Kathryn Hardison, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
  • To the left is a dollhouse-size model of a church lined in Ghanian Kente cloth.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
  • Yes, there were challenges to overcome—a dollhouse and a dress had to be rebuilt—but this shoot still seems touched by magic.
    — Vogue, 12 Oct. 2021
  • No one knows how the dollhouse got there, and SF Gate looked into the mystery.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
  • Customers are often dollhouse hobbyists, though—like the products in the store—there is a range.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 30 July 2024

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