How to Use rag doll in a Sentence

rag doll

noun
  • Butkus would hit runners high, wrap them up and drive them to the ground like a rag doll.
    — Andrew Seligman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Doro watched in shock as the rock sent his friend tumbling down the mountain like a rag doll.
    — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
  • In the first round, Ed is throwing Kyle around like a rag doll.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Two pit bulls latched onto Avery, tugging her like a rag doll.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The pimp whirls and thrashes both girls until their bodies lie like rag dolls on the bathroom floor.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Maybe the person in back got whipped against those concrete walls like a rag doll, but everybody went faster.
    — al, 5 July 2022
  • The bear grabbed him by his left wrist and shook him like a rag doll, hoisting him above the ground with her powerful jaws.
    — Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The rag doll on the mantelpiece is supposed to fly, or maybe jump, to the chandelier.
    — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Add in stitching details with black and white face paint to really drive home your rag doll creation.
    — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
  • The song list has more than two dozen pieces in it, and several of them take you up out of yourself and fling you around like a rag doll.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In the photograph, the divers hurtle like rag dolls toward the water below.
    — Anika Burgess, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
  • This might sound weird, but the ragdoll effects when your rider falls off the bike are also much better than before.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The initial shock of cold water gives way to weightless confusion as the force of the ocean current throws me around like a rag doll.
    — Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
  • After a few seconds, the soldiers drag their prisoner like a rag doll to the middle of the street, pull off his shirt, and kick him.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2019
  • Laterrian bursts into the first round with high energy, and throws Tyler around like a rag doll.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Ogbonnia has a lightning first step and is exceptional at rag dolling blockers and finding the ball.
    — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Isn’t the self just a jumbled of sensory input that is stitched together like some rag doll that looks terrible up close?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2014
  • Fisk easily takes control, beating him relentlessly and throwing him around like a rag doll.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
  • At the same time, Ben is standing like a rag doll, accepting Riley’s affection.
    — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Longhorns’ offensive line also began unraveling like a tattered rag doll as the game wore on.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Oct. 2021
  • There’s a window sill, and on it right now there is a rag doll, three monkeys, a Donald Duck, a bear, a dog, and another bear.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 3 May 2022
  • The body, insensitive to pain, goes completely limp, often falling to the ground as awkwardly as rag doll, limbs splayed, head thrown back.
    — Jeff Wise, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010
  • Morris in 2019 tossed Bertans to the court like a ragdoll and Bertans called Morris a name.
    — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The ballad was inspired by Cusack's character in the franchise, the cowgirl rag doll Jessie.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 June 2026
  • Consider folding forward and hanging like a rag doll with your hands holding onto opposite elbows and the weight of your head pulling you downward.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Suh harassed and chased Texas quarterback Colt McCoy all game long, at times slinging him around like a rag doll.
    — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • This was an impressive showcase of Lash Legend throwing Piper Niven around like a rag doll.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • That drive, which included another sack where Burrow was tossed like a rag doll, was exactly what Bengals fans did not want to see.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Like clockwork, the Rebels went into Tuscaloosa and were manhandled like a rag doll, losing 42-21 in a game that wasn't even that close.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Knowing his job as a blocker wasn’t finished, Neuville tossed Nebraska cornerback Chris Jones to the turf like a rag doll.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2017

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