How to Use ventriloquist in a Sentence

ventriloquist

noun

• The 13-year-old ventriloquist won the 12th season of the show.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2018
• He was named one of the best junior ventriloquists in the country around the time of the story's airing.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 11 June 2018
• Ron Workman, 76, a puppeteer and ventriloquist, drove five hours from Amery just to be in the plaza.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2021
• The most famous ventriloquist this side of Edgar Bergen is back in a new stand-up special.
  — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
• The first Emmy Awards gave one of its six trophies to a ventriloquist!
  — Devon Maloney, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
• Vienne has worked as both a puppeteer and a ventriloquist, and the piece required something of both.
  — Kally Patz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• In his spare time, Durr also was a ventriloquist who took his puppets to schools and churches.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• In fact, in the first six years alone, five of the six winners were singers (ventriloquist Terry Fator broke the streak in season two, though the runner-up was, yep, a singer).
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 11 June 2019
• Again, Pixar plays on adult fears—creepy dolls and ventriloquist dummies —as well as universal themes of loss and love.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2019
• The larger one’s mouth slides up and down like a sentient ventriloquist’s dummy.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
• Darci Lynne, a 12-year-old singing ventriloquist, won Mel B’s golden buzzer in the premiere.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 June 2017
• The Auctioneer, [which is ] a routine in which the puppets auction off the ventriloquist.
  — Amanda Coyne, Cosmopolitan, 8 Sep. 2017
• Since his stint on the competition series, the ventriloquist has returned to the AGT stage numerous times as a guest act over the years.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023
• Off duty, Durr also was a ventriloquist who took his puppets to schools and churches.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
• Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne was the runner-up, while sand artist Kseniya Simonova came in third.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Night of the Living Dummy – Things get weird and terrifying when a girl gets her hands on a ventriloquist's dummy.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The ventriloquist cracked spectators up with his comedic back-and-forth banter with his little puppet pal.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023
• Or in the case of Stine’s beloved horror series, dozens of books starring a bevy of spooky frights: werewolves, ghosts, haunted Halloween masks and even an evil ventriloquist's dummy.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
• Darci's got talent For someone who's become a star as a ventriloquist, Darci Lynne Farmer sure found her own voice.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
• Hager — aka Pops, his character name this year — will be joined by his ventriloquist dummy, Lolly, who’s been his sidekick for two years.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
• With a car full of clothes and a couple of ventriloquist dummies, comedian Jeff Dunham moved to Los Angles in 1988.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2017
• Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, 12, was the victor.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• There are other horrors: for starters, the clown and the ventriloquist who make appearances at family parties for Jesse.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022
• With 52 million votes cast, Darci Lynne became the second ventriloquist—and only the third female—to win the show, according to People.
  — Courtney Campbell, Country Living, 21 Sep. 2017
• His dad, Brian Haner, is a guitarist who has worked in many fields, from prog-rock to comedy (with ventriloquist Jeff Dunham) to metal.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2017
• Oh yeah — that bizarre one-liner followed a ventriloquist who won the show last year using a dummy version of Simon to introduce him.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Of course, Cristina and Deadly Games both gave amazing performances, but still, many viewers at home felt that the young ventriloquist and singer were a step above the rest and totally deserved to be in the finale.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Jan. 2019
• The secret to being a ventriloquist, Taylor confides, is not throwing your voice or keeping your lips from moving.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2022
• Basically, each of them got a chance to turn the other into a human ventriloquist dummy.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 5 May 2020
• Gabby Gabby is guarded by henchmen: ventriloquist’s dummies whose lurching gait suggests that, in a far-off act of vengeance, a gangster doll broke their legs.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024