Vocabulary Word
Word: dummy
Definition: imitation of a real object used as a substitute; effigy
Definition: imitation of a real object used as a substitute; effigy
Sentences Containing 'dummy'
There wasn't a human being in this town but knew that that boy was a perfect chucklehead; perfect dummy; just a stupid ass, as you may say.
"They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate.
The discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and coming to the bed.
So him and the new dummy started off; and the king he laughs, and blethers out: "Broke his arm--VERY likely, AIN'T it?--and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and ain't learnt how.
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