(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.
Teddy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(2) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(3) Those goals had taken him up a position on the goalscoring charts, ahead of Teddy Sheringham, on 128.
(4) Hemingway’s daughter, Corey, is in a marquee at the back of the site, painting a teddy bear onto some MDF, in the pursuit of a Teddy Boy pun that either doesn’t work, or I don’t get, but it looks great.
(5) Forty-five premature infants, 22 males and 23 females, enrolled at 29-33 weeks conceptional age (CA) received in the isolette either a "breathing" teddy bear (set to breathe at one-half the infant's quiet sleep respiration rate) or a nonbreathing bear.
(6) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
(7) That, of course, has nothing to do with school, and everything to do with sex, and the art teacher, Teddy Lloyd, with whom Miss Brodie (defiantly in her “prime”) is hopelessly in love.
(8) And if not everyone agrees with her, or approves of Virago, or wants to be published by a women-only imprint, so much the better: "The last thing you want to be is a flat old thing that everybody loves, like a big teddy bear.
(9) If you want to go far, go together.” Teddy Ruge is the co-founder of Hive Colab , an innovation hub in Kampala, Uganda .
(10) At the same time, rich San Diego – which Teddy Cruz likes to call, because of the border fence, the largest gated community in the world – has its poor neighbourhoods.
(11) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(12) Teddy Barrett also highlights the green credentials of Vitesse Arnhem's Gelredome Stadium , trumping Freiburg with 112m² of solar panels, 320m² of photovoltaic cells that generate a 30,000kWh surplus, eco-friendly cooling and heating systems, and recycled seats.
(13) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(14) Teddy Sheringham Paul Gascoigne In which tournament did Spain last lose a European Championship match?
(15) I watch cartoons, do my homework, then hug my teddy bear and go to sleep so I can be united with my family in Damascus in my dreams,” she says.
(16) To create the teddy's ears, sew a running stitch over the top left and right corner of the head.
(17) It may not do so until it hears a right-to-life case or some other human interest story, however many visitors buy its souvenir mousemats or teddy bears wearing the court's logo.
(18) "It's like a personal fundraising thermometer, but at scale and applied to field organising," Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign's digital director told Rolling Stone earlier this year.
(19) The Republican party is going to go into a far more progressive direction, back to the party of Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt.
(20) Teddy's brother Patrick, who followed their father and is now representative from Rhode Island, sobbed as he heard the story.