rag doll

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Recent Examples of rag doll Seeing a player with the chops of Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion with 11 Tour wins, ranked No. 4 in the world, tossed about like a rag doll on the North Course. Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025 Slightly bend your knees, and hang forward like a rag doll. Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 His own creepy nature doesn't exactly emulate the joyful holiday, but luckily, rag doll Sally (Catherine O'Hara) is there to make everything okay again. Sydni Ellis, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024 A couple from the United Kingdom filmed their rag doll cat sleeping in an unusual position, now the viral clip has turned the feline into a social media star. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rag doll
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rag doll
Noun
  • And so his way of coping with the world was talking with an orangutan hand puppet.
    John Russell, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, one of the other wards is Dave Crealy (John Lithgow), who terrorizes the residents in increasingly sinister ways — along with the help of his hand puppet, Jenny Pen.
    William Earl, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Vigil and other women will receive dolls created by students in Manuel Jara Elementary School David Orona’s art class to represent the women’s strengths on April 5 at the Northside Community Center.
    Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Did a kid eat a battery somewhere and now I'm forced to use a power drill to disassemble a $10 talking Frozen doll?
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Workers inspected the grooves for imperfections, fed album jackets into a shrink-wrapper and stacked the finished products on tall dollies for shipping.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The actor started out walking, then stepped onto a board that had been attached to a dolly, which was on a track, kept going forward, and then lifted him up.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Items: Brooks purchased a $5 action figure of Cyclops, an X-Men character.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Prices of playsets and action figures range from $9.99 to $29.99, with minifigure sets starting at $2.99.
    Joan Verdon, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In one scene, animal marionettes dance on strings; in another, shadow puppets act out a bawdy folk tale.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Celebrate World Puppetry Day: Make your own silly bird marionette.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Teflon seal around a poppet, a thruster valve, expanded and started extruding out as the thruster headed up.
    Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the Old World, hexing your enemies required use of candle magick, mysterious sigils or poppet dolls impaled by needles; in 2021, Nessa Barrett turns hexes into dark-pop hits.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • Each egg contains butter slime, a packet of glitter, and a sweet dinosaur figurine.
    Laura Lu, Parents, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Toy Story saw a happy-go-lucky cowboy figurine named Woody (Tom Hanks) have his world shaken up when his owner Andy (John Morris) received a cool, brand new action figure by the name of Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen).
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Or a modern society routinely placing statuettes of this man before its innocent children?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Obstinately, the drama was supposed to come from who won the statuettes — with a three-way race among Anora, The Brutalist, and Conclave making many of the categories hard to call.
    Cristina Escobar, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2025

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“Rag doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rag%20doll. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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