How to Use dummy in a Sentence

dummy

1 of 3 noun

• The bomb was just a dummy.
• She loves you, you dummy.
• They practiced CPR on a dummy.
• But when push comes to shove, Robert’s no dummy.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
• This dummy has been on a long journey.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 21 Nov. 2025
• So only a dummy would take those guys knowing that.
  — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• There have been a few dummies doing dumb stuff around the finals.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 12 June 2026
• The team fitted a dummy with a traction splint.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• Yorke’s brilliant dummy was the making of that goal.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• Then, of course, a dummy's bones need to be encased in the squishiness of flesh.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
• Dad opens up and points at a lifeless dummy in a black dress with a white lace collar and a hat.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
• Still, as Mann says, members of Gen Z are no dummies.
  — Julia Sullivan, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
• And once it's all done, the dummies will be cleaned off, recalibrated — and ready to crash again.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
• The dummy isn’t for your benefit, either now or later on.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• The glass windows are blocked by tables and a piano and a crib and a dressmaker’s dummy.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
• The dummy for a team-mate to score is one of football’s most enjoyable and beguiling acts.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• Step inside the plant with these photos to see the step-by-step process of developing the dummies.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
• Jamie’s no dummy, though, and nothing about this situation is sitting right with him.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
• And Queen Elizabeth was no dummy.
  — Susan Page, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
• Jim went out resembling something like a hero, fighting some dummy who tried to steal a handful of comic books.
  — David Frese, kansascity.com, 12 May 2017
• Bruce taught him Jeet Kune Do footwork, the mook jong dummy, and punches and kicks on the bag.
  — Jeff Chang september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
• Mora, no dummy, has already noticed.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
• The female dummy is smaller and has a rubber jacket to represent breasts.
  — Jeff McMurray, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2025
• The female dummy is smaller and has a rubber jacket to represent breasts.
  — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
• The existing female dummy is a smaller version of the male model.
  — Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
• But the claim here isn’t that the Snakes are baseball dummies and the Padres are baseball geniuses.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
• At the institute's test site in Virginia, 18 dummies are put through their paces week after week.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
• Before the game, Sabres fans were in the parking lot taking turns punching a dummy with Hagel’s face taped on it.
  — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
• That stretcher supported a human dummy, though the robots cannot carry people yet.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
• But for the most part, these competitors were dummies all around, with even the biggest threats deeply flawed or actively annoying in some way.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025

dummy

2 of 3 adjective

• They took apart a dummy bomb.
• South ruffs in dummy and ruffs a club with the queen of trumps.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The images are of dummy units, so there’s no screen to see here.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• North Korea could send up a dummy mass to test those stages.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2016
• His money was safe; the hack had sent him to a dummy Web site.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• But the gun contained dummy rounds, and at least one lead bullet.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Then they’ll be tracked for a year to see whether the vaccine works better than the dummy shots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• Everyone will be watching from the lodge to see each dummy soar!
  — Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
• The second time, it was loaded with both dummy rounds and a live bullet.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
• Five live rounds mixed in with dummy rounds were found on set following the shooting.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• Two-thirds received two doses of the vaccine, three weeks apart, and the rest got dummy shots.
  — Linda A. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2021
• The report also found that there were four different kinds of dummy rounds on set.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• That caused the blank to propel the dummy round out of the barrel, striking Lee.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2022
• My 11-year-old twins pummel each other with terms like scrub, dummy and stupe (for stupid).
  — Amy Paturel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• That compares to about a third of youngsters given the dummy patches.
  — Lauren Neergaard, The Enquirer, 11 May 2023
• Some teams change their signals frequently or use a lot of dummy calls; others don’t.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• To their surprise, several sharks ignored the swans and swam straight for the dummy bales.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• However, the gun contained dummy rounds and at least one lead bullet.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
• One-touch ignition makes this a dummy-proof patio heater, which can heat up a nine-foot radius.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2025
• One-touch ignition makes this a dummy-proof patio heater, which can heat up a nine-foot radius.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
• When the cannon fired, in the pups plunged, struggling adorably to return the dummy fowl to their owners.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021
• They were given daily doses of peanut powder mixed in food or a dummy powder — oat flour.
  — NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
• In contrast, there were 18 cases among those given dummy shots.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Using a laser to guide dummy bombs, the drone was able to strike a target the size of a picnic blanket from five miles away.
  — The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• There’s actual conflict and tension onstage, rather than just a guy with a dummy telling jokes.
  — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The researchers also bought fake comments, likes and follows on their dummy account.
  — Davey Alba, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2022
• Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the 'dummy' Round box.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2021
• Back on the boat, the team dropped dummy bales of cocaine into the water next to fake swans to see which object the sharks preferred.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• Ship also managed to relight one of its engines in space and deploy eight dummy payloads.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• The rockets are still being tested and have mostly carried dummy satellites to space so far.
  — Lora Kolodny,chris Eudaily, CNBC, 15 June 2026

dummy

3 of 3 verb

• South then leads a trump to dummy and returns a club to his ten.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• South took the ace, cashed his ace of clubs, led a trump to dummy and ruffed a club.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
• South next led a diamond to dummy and let the jack of clubs ride.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• South should take the ace of hearts, cash the ace of clubs, lead a trump to dummy and try a club to his ten.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
• South can lead a club to dummy at Trick Two to finesse in hearts.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• In addition to blank rounds, dummy rounds sometimes are used on set.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• East wins and leads a club, and South ruffs and leads a diamond to dummy’s jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• When East-West follow, South leads a trump to dummy and ruffs a club.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• Later, South leads his four of diamonds to dummy’s eight and runs the suit for nine tricks in all.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• South led a diamond to dummy and returned a heart to his queen, and West took the king and led the queen of clubs.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 4 May 2024
• So putting it all together, South judged to lead a diamond to dummy’s jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 June 2024
• The easiest scenario to dummy out is the one in which all the teams in question go 4-4.
  — Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• East took the ace and returned a heart, and declarer won and next led a club to dummy to return a trump, finessing with his jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• East won and returned a club, and declarer won, took the ace of hearts, ruffed a heart and led a second diamond to dummy’s queen.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
• With digital twins predicting patient response, there will be no need for placebos or dummy drugs.
  — Ganes Kesari, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Joveljic dummied Afrifa’s cutback pass, leaving the ball for the on-running Berg Johnsen.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2026
• Confidence booming, Aaronson took the ball in, jinked, dummied and then buried a finish off the inside of the post.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Baldwin said accidental discharges of blanks or dummy rounds on film and television sets are common.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2021
• But, as MacRumors points out, dummy units that appear this late in the game are usually accurate.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 July 2021
• In a penny game at my club, South led a diamond to dummy and returned a trump — and his roof caved in when East discarded.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
• Mike Tristano, a veteran armorer, or movie weapons specialist, was alarmed to hear that live rounds were mixed in with blanks and dummy rounds.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2021
• From a mask that can’t be removed once donned to a horror theme park, killer camera, werewolf and dummy that comes to life, spooky adventures abound for ages 8 and older.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Brahim Diaz dummied and Ismael Saibari finished crisply, his third of the tournament.
  — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• Gerso Fernandes elected to dummy the ball, setting up Gutierrez to rip the game-winner.
  — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 10 Mar. 2018
• The tragedy triggered an industry call for tighter safety standards on-set, including eliminating the use of real guns and dummy rounds of any kind.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
• Pro Max dummy hands-on video teasing the significant camera upgrades coming to this year’s Pro models.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Aug. 2022
• After forcing defenses to account for the toss, the Saints often come back to a similar formation later in the game but dummy the action.
  — Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• At the end of the second half, Riyad Mahrez shaped the ball onto his right foot, dummied inside and finished beautifully to seal all three points for Leicester.
  — SI.com, 9 May 2018
• Medina cuts the ball back, Almada dummies it intelligently and, when the ball reaches him, Messi has enough space to stroke a first-time shot into the net.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 24 June 2026
• Spurs came even closer in the 58th minute when Son cut inside from the right hand side this time, dummied his way past two Everton defenders and smashed the ball against the base of the post.
  — SI.com, 13 Jan. 2018