How to Use ventriloquist in a Sentence

ventriloquist

noun
  • King studied the movement of ventriloquist dummies to get his jaw hinges just right.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The larger one’s mouth slides up and down like a sentient ventriloquist’s dummy.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
  • He was named one of the best junior ventriloquists in the country around the time of the story's airing.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 11 June 2018
  • Vienne has worked as both a puppeteer and a ventriloquist, and the piece required something of both.
    — Kally Patz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • His ventriloquist doll is antique, too.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • In his spare time, Durr also was a ventriloquist who took his puppets to schools and churches.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • The first Emmy Awards gave one of its six trophies to a ventriloquist!
    — Devon Maloney, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
  • But Bergen warns not to peek back, after one time spotting a creepy ventriloquist dummy.
    — Vulture, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The most famous ventriloquist this side of Edgar Bergen is back in a new stand-up special.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The 13-year-old ventriloquist won the 12th season of the show.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Again, Pixar plays on adult fears—creepy dolls and ventriloquist dummies —as well as universal themes of loss and love.
    — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The ventriloquist cracked spectators up with his comedic back-and-forth banter with his little puppet pal.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Off duty, Durr also was a ventriloquist who took his puppets to schools and churches.
    — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
  • Ron Workman, 76, a puppeteer and ventriloquist, drove five hours from Amery just to be in the plaza.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2021
  • The ventriloquist Edgar Bergen received a special statuette made of wood.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Basically, each of them got a chance to turn the other into a human ventriloquist dummy.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 5 May 2020
  • His name was Brent Vernon, a local performer and ventriloquist.
    — Kelly Heinzerling, ABC News, 3 May 2024
  • The Auctioneer, [which is ] a routine in which the puppets auction off the ventriloquist.
    — Amanda Coyne, Cosmopolitan, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Is Ron the ventriloquist the one manipulating me as the puppet?
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 May 2025
  • The secret to being a ventriloquist, Taylor confides, is not throwing your voice or keeping your lips from moving.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Hager — aka Pops, his character name this year — will be joined by his ventriloquist dummy, Lolly, who’s been his sidekick for two years.
    — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • Oh yeah — that bizarre one-liner followed a ventriloquist who won the show last year using a dummy version of Simon to introduce him.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Darci Lynne, a 12-year-old singing ventriloquist, won Mel B’s golden buzzer in the premiere.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 June 2017
  • Side by side, the message continued as Peele, like a digital ventriloquist, put more words in the former president’s mouth.
    — Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne was the runner-up, while sand artist Kseniya Simonova came in third.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Night of the Living Dummy – Things get weird and terrifying when a girl gets her hands on a ventriloquist's dummy.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, 12, was the victor.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • In fact, in the first six years alone, five of the six winners were singers (ventriloquist Terry Fator broke the streak in season two, though the runner-up was, yep, a singer).
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 11 June 2019
  • Darci's got talent For someone who's become a star as a ventriloquist, Darci Lynne Farmer sure found her own voice.
    — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Since his stint on the competition series, the ventriloquist has returned to the AGT stage numerous times as a guest act over the years.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023

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