How to Use body double in a Sentence

body double

noun
  • The photos in the post are not proof he was replaced by a body double.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Obama and Joe Biden might have staged the killing of Osama bin Laden with a body double.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Was that a body double or was that entirely you in the scene?
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Swayze refused to use a body double during the scene when the pair dance on a log over a ravine.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • For more, including how to find the right body double for you, check out the link in today's show notes.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Even his body double was big, but like Shaq still was bigger than him.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 30 June 2018
  • In order to film the scenes where the twins appear at the same time, there was a body double, Susan Henning.
    Tolly Wright, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
  • For the record, there is no Melania Trump body double, but that didn't stop the blathering about it.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2017
  • One video shared this week suggested that Biden was in fact a body double.
    WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Having a body double also meant the prep time was doubled to create the hair and make-up for both men.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The trailer reveals how the film pulls off the trick, with Kennedy Irwin serving as a body double for the actor.
    Wilson Chapman, Variety, 13 July 2022
  • The pregnant Meet Cute star, 37, shared a snap of her twinning with body double Monette Moio.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Then a very decent Jackman body double walks by in the background.
    Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The body double creates light social pressure to achieve a goal.
    Nick Keppler, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Then, a very decent Jackman body double walks by in the background.
    Vulture, 10 July 2023
  • But within minutes there was talk of a swap, a body double, a plan hatched to get Epstein to Guantanamo Bay.
    Glamour, 13 Aug. 2019
  • From her time as an Olympian to her body double gigs, here's everything to know about Livingston.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This body double is played by Golden Globe winner Glenn Close.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The highlight of the movie comes later in the same scene, when Stone and Gosling re-create Dirty Dancing’s most famous moment (with the help of a body double).
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • Bowen Yang plays the director and Armisen plays a crew member named Raymond, who is tasked with filling in for the star’s body double.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Instead of lifeless white body doubles, the brand will now show new, diverse mannequins on their sales floors.
    Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Penelope Cruz was pregnant during On Stranger Tides, and her sister helped her out as a body double for wide shots.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Ritter shot his side of the scenes with a body double, while Nélisse was kept away from even listening to what was happening on set.
    Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
  • Ivy Snitzer, then 20 years old, was hired to be Paltrow’s body double for the film, which used close-ups of her arms, torso, and thighs in scenes where Paltrow’s face didn’t need to be shown.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The naked bunch of survivors walk out and Orlean (whose bare butt is a body double, for the record, not Streep's) goes to touch a cute and colorful ostrich-like creature.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2021
  • At least, that’s the rationale online sleuths and jokesters are using to argue that the first lady is using a body double.
    Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The then-aspiring actress was just 20 when she was cast as Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in the Farelly Brothers' rom-com.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Case in point: on Bloodlines, another dog, named Rugby, was on hand to be Jellybean's body double.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Twitter users on Wednesday came up with this weird notion that the first lady, due to a very bad hair day, had hired a body double to stand next to her husband, nod and clench her jaw.
    miamiherald, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Black Adam team initially filmed Superman with a body double, and test screened the scene without showing the character’s face.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2022

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