Example sentences for: doll

How can you use “doll” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • • English names written in katakana: The Dark Ducks, J-League Downtown (J-League is a soccer league), Physical, Cruising, Omnibus, Original Love, The Peanuts (twin sisters), Southern All-Stars, The Tempters, Tokyo Performance Doll (seven girls), Tulip, Tunnels (pronounced toenails), Zutorobi (The Beatles pronounced backwards, syllabically rather than alphabetically!

  • Temple and Carrie are cartoon meanies who hate Scarpetta for no apparent reason; they're about as Dickensian as a satanic clown doll named Chuckie.

  • With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.

  • It pokes endless fun at the corporatization of all aspects of life (think of Duff Gardens, a mind-numbing, totalitarian theme park; or the robotic Schwarzenegger clone known as McBain; or Malibu Stacy, the Barbie-like doll Lisa Simpson lives for) even as its characters have become among the most recognizable icons of corporate culture.

  • Janet McTeer's Broadway performance in Ibsen's A Doll's House , on the other hand, has been both widely honored and roundly reviled--she won the Tony for best actress last Sunday, but among the reviews were several sputtering fulminations.


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