Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to, or using, ventriloquism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ventriloquous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to
ventriloquy - adjective spoken to oneself
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Examples
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The symphony began, and was soon afterwards followed by a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Returning home after adventures, he realises the talking cat is a dupe, and the ventriloquial masterpiece is performed by none other than Thulsa Doom.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Cat and the Skull - Robert E. Howard Blue Tyson 2008
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There were seven species of grasshopper, almost half the Norfolk total, and they were all singing from one single patch of grassland – a melange of hissing and purring sounds of different pitches and varying lengths that was made all the more maze-like by the individual insects 'huge ventriloquial powers.
Country diary 2010
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Some of you may have seen Boingboing's amazing link to a Flickr user's pictures of the Vent Haven Museum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, which bills itself as "the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia."
Puppetmaster Heather McDougal 2007
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Returning home after adventures, he realises the talking cat is a dupe, and the ventriloquial masterpiece is performed by none other than Thulsa Doom.
Archive 2007-02-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Returning home after adventures, he realises the talking cat is a dupe, and the ventriloquial masterpiece is performed by none other than Thulsa Doom.
Archive 2007-01-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Some of you may have seen Boingboing's amazing link to a Flickr user's pictures of the Vent Haven Museum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, which bills itself as "the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia."
Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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To capture the distinctive qualities of such a sea of voices would be a challenge for any writer, but Matthiessen long ago proved his ventriloquial skills in the much-admired Far Tortuga (1975), a novel largely told with a Caribbean accent.
An Epic of the Everglades Dirda, Michael 2008
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The Vent Haven Museum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, bills itself as "the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia."
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