1
: a small-scale figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
2
Examples of doll in a Sentence
My aunt collects porcelain dolls.
there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom
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Bonnie herself has grown in subsequent sequels, and now Toy Story 5 finds her as a shy 8-year-old struggling to balance her affection for vintage dolls like Jessie with the shinier tech her peers prefer.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Princess Kate later revealed that William had spent time practicing for that precise moment by strapping a doll inside the car seat.
—Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 19 June 2026
That sense of modernity has sometimes felt absent from the movies’ sweetly old-fashioned world, which features pull-string cowboy dolls and a shiny spaceman action figure.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
The kids, entranced by their phones and tablets, don’t meet up anymore to play dress-up dolls, kick a ball around, or even just talk—not with whole virtual worlds and endless distractions at their eager little fingertips.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Princess Kate later revealed that William had spent time practicing for that precise moment by strapping a doll inside the car seat.
—Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 19 June 2026
That sense of modernity has sometimes felt absent from the movies’ sweetly old-fashioned world, which features pull-string cowboy dolls and a shiny spaceman action figure.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
The kids, entranced by their phones and tablets, don’t meet up anymore to play dress-up dolls, kick a ball around, or even just talk—not with whole virtual worlds and endless distractions at their eager little fingertips.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
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“Doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doll. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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doll
noun
ˈdäl 
ˈdȯl
1
: a small figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
2
a
: a pretty young woman
b
: an attractive person
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