(n.) A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russian dolls in the likeness of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
(2) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(3) The authors argue for the use of structured interview techniques with use of the anatomical dolls and the collection of normative comparison data relative to the evaluation of suspected sexual abuse.
(4) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
(5) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(6) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
(7) These dolls can be used by trained professionals to help make conclusions about a child's background.
(8) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
(9) This is a coded attack on the sexy, grownup images that surround dolls such as Barbie and Bratz.
(10) It was found that the maternity instinct is inborn but it starts to show only during the second year of life and is manifested in the form of playing with dolls and reaches its peak at the age of 3-5 years.
(11) The Makie dolls are another example of commercial production, Rowley points out.
(12) All the usual suspects are making an appearance, including mice on their mice organ, Gabriel the toad, Madeleine the rag doll and Professor Yaffle.
(13) Doll immediately gave up his own five cigarettes a day habit.
(14) Each doll can be customised according to skin tone, eye colour and hair colour to look like its owner.
(15) "Selling this doll is highly offensive to our ancestors and the African-American community," Rev KW Tulloss, NAC's president in Los Angeles, told the New York Daily News.
(16) Both groups did not differ from each other in respect to frequency of tomboyish behavior or interest in doll play and other aspects of materanl rehearsal.
(17) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(18) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
(19) A giant inflatable doll with the face of Shaker Aamer , the last British resident held at Guantánamo who returned to the UK last October after 14 years’ incarceration, was displayed not far from the White House fence and front lawn.
(20) 33 children were asked to identify from an array of pictures the one which best represented a doll's view of the stimulus display.
Dowl
Definition:
(n.) Same as Dowle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
(2) However, it later transpired that she had done a reading for Dowling two years earlier.
(3) Previously we demonstrated that transgenic mice expressing a mutant keratin in the basal layer of their stratified squamous epithelia exhibited a phenotype bearing resemblance to a subclass (Dowling Meara) of a heterogeneous group of human skin disorders known as epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS) (Vassar, R., P. A. Coulombe, L. Degenstein, K. Albers, E. Fuchs.
(4) However Dowling-Degos' disease is considered to be a nonparaneoplasic genodermatoses, this association should be taken into account.
(5) Davina McCall is being replaced by Brian Dowling, the series two winner turned TV presenter and the contestant voted Big Brother's best in a number of polls.
(6) It seems likely that Dowling-Degos disease, and Kitamura's reticulate acropigmentation are different clinical expressions of the same entity.
(7) Host John Oliver made fun of Tony Abbott, Jaymes Diaz and Stephanie Banister, but my favourite bit was about Peter Dowling’s sexting scandal : You do not pair a penis with red wine.
(8) We present 2 cases of Dowling-Degos disease out of a German family with 9 affected members and discuss the autosomally dominant inheritance and clinical features of this disease.
(9) On account of distinctive features - such as the consanguinity of the parents, cataracts, leukoplakia, bullas, and verrucous keratoses - we can distinguish between 5 biotypes of congenital poikiloderma, which are named after their first observers: Rothmund's, Thomson's, Zinsser's, Brain's and Dowling's syndrome.
(10) Reticular pigmented anomaly of the flexures (Dowling-Degos' anomaly) is a rare, benign, new genodermatosis that has recently evolved from independent observations and studies by several dermatologists.
(11) Also, from the early days, Ron Dowling, Brian Rourke and Cliff Poulton, and two no longer with us — Geoff Greenfield and Walter Rixon.
(12) Michael Dowling, a Denver-based attorney who acted as Zazi's defence counsel, said the full picture remained unclear as Zazi pleaded guilty before all details of the investigation were made public.
(13) The 20 cases in which the cyst was removed unbroken with Dowling's technique are alive and only two have sequelae of the preoperative lesion (blind).
(14) We now demonstrate that two patients with spontaneous cases of Dowling-Meara EBS have point mutations in a critical region in one (K14) of two basal keratin genes.
(15) He refers me to Tim Dowling's column in this magazine.
(16) The distribution and morphology of tonofilament (TF) clumps were examined by light and electron microscopy in skin samples from a total of 17 patients with the Dowling-Meara (DM) form of epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS).
(17) And in a unique combo, the Guardian asked columnist Tim Dowling and body language expert Peter Collett to offer their reflections on the photo showing the new cabinet at their first meeting.
(18) There’s no obvious indication it’s been in the water a long time and so on.” James Record, a professor of Aviation at Dowling College and former commercial airline pilot, said the long wait to find a part of the plane was not surprising.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Dowling and his beard.
(20) Andrew Dowling, partnership director for Gedling Sports Partnership at the Carlton Academy in Nottingham.