How to Use dolly in a Sentence

dolly

noun
  • We'll need a dolly to move the refrigerator.
  • The dolly is even in shot on those lenses.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The park does have carts to haul your gear and dollies to transport firewood.
    — Sharyn Alden, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2018
  • Has a screen attached to her handlebar at the end of the dolly.
    — Scott King, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • The computers and a dolly were just kind of like rigged to this machine.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The frame works like a dolly to support and transport heavy trees, which can be stored upright or flat.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Each band’s gear had been set up on dollies and risers, secured under forty-foot-long tents.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Attach four caster wheels to the base of an old cabinet door to form a dolly.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Her body sways backward and forward like a rocking horse being pulled along on a dolly.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Woo had to ask security to bring his wheelchair and a dolly.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Usually on a tripod or a dolly.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Note to launch at Putah Creek, a tow dolly helps plenty to get your kayak down to the water’s edge.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • For smooth, sideways motion—or to move a shot closer or further from without a zoom lens—get a dolly.
    — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 19 Nov. 2019
  • He is seen on video surveillance wheeling the stove down the hall on a dolly, prosecutors said.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The jet’s tail end was lifted onto a large dolly, which was then towed via long tethers by two vehicles driving side by side.
    — ABC News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • There were no dollies, tripods, or other equipment — only a handheld camera with the actors.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The bookmakers pack up their computers and roll them away on dollies, leaving the lawn littered with betting slips.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • On Saturday morning, the agents were seen loading the items onto dollies and into the back of a white truck.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Being bound to a mechanic’s dolly in the middle of a metal-heavy landfill does things to a man’s perspective.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Throwing trashcans dollies, and stuff like that--broke one of the windows and cut Michael Chiesa really bad.
    — Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The grips, working in religious silence, position the camera on a dolly for a tracking shot.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The Goguette cabinet is a more permanent piece of home appliancery that took two of us and a dolly just to move it across the dining room.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Most carts, dollies, and internal transport tools are discarded simply because a single part failed or the workflow changed.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
  • There’s one particular moment, there’s a shot, and Ryan had set up this tiny little dolly to do this dolly shot of his son and the megaphone and the dog.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023
  • However, most Instacart shoppers are driving small commuter cars, not large trucks with dollies and other equipment to help move bulky items.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2017
  • Museum officials are using air dollies to move the statue through a series of doorways, windows, hairpin turns and tight squeezes.
    — USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • The twins, who had been handcuffed to a dolly in their mother’s laundry room, waited to escape when Duncan and Terrell were asleep.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Sets already have ramps for wheeled dollies, and they can easily be added in front of portable bathrooms and other elevated areas as well.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
  • In the hilarious video, Gerber is seen pushing a dolly and is stocked with two cases of tequila and two cases of diapers.
    — Nicole Moschella, ajc, 7 June 2017

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