as in hand puppet
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Recent Examples of rag doll
Forlorn but oddly hopeful, Sally became the film’s most empathetic character, thanks in part to the depth that O’Hara lent to the sort-of animated rag doll.
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Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
The industry functions on a delicate infrastructure of intimidation, backbiting, and the occasional contract amid endless favors, yanking Aasmaan through its machinations like a rag doll in the wind.
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Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
19 Sep. 2025
That drive, which included another sack where Burrow was tossed like a rag doll, was exactly what Bengals fans did not want to see.
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Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Without warning or notice the door opens and the bull bolted into the arena, throwing Horton around like a rag doll.
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Jon-Michael Banks,
Kansas City Star,
31 July 2025
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Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
The industry functions on a delicate infrastructure of intimidation, backbiting, and the occasional contract amid endless favors, yanking Aasmaan through its machinations like a rag doll in the wind.
—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
19 Sep. 2025
That drive, which included another sack where Burrow was tossed like a rag doll, was exactly what Bengals fans did not want to see.
—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Without warning or notice the door opens and the bull bolted into the arena, throwing Horton around like a rag doll.
—
Jon-Michael Banks,
Kansas City Star,
31 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for rag doll
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rag doll
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In the mitt biz, this is broken down into the categories of mitten (looks like a large winter mitten); pincer, which has the thumb flap directly opposing the other fingers like a hand puppet (which is why they’re also called puppet mitts); and glove, which separates all five fingers.
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Nana bought shark and snake hand puppets as gifts for them.
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As for beauty, Madonna wore her golden doll-like curls down with a middle part and hair clips.
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Mattel Creations On Wednesday, eight months after the licensing agreement with Netflix was struck, Mattel announced the pending releases of the first dolls in the toymaker’s KPop Demon Hunters line.
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Tuesday, surveillance video shows an SUV pull up and two people enter the back door of Hushcha's loft with a dolly.
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Woo had to ask security to bring his wheelchair and a dolly.
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In October, Netflix named Mattel the master licensee for dolls, action figures and other products for KPop Demon Hunters, while Hasbro was named master licensee for games and role-play toys, among other items.
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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.
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About 146 groups, made up of more than 1,400 participants, marched in the parade, with projects ranging from larger-than-life marionette dolls to squads of children in do-it-yourself costumes to mobile re-creations of LACMA’s most iconic art pieces.
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Clicking and clacking, a tiny wooden marionette lifts an apple to his mouth ad infinitum.
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The Teflon seal around a poppet, a thruster valve, expanded and started extruding out as the thruster headed up.
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In the Old World, hexing your enemies required use of candle magick, mysterious sigils or poppet dolls impaled by needles; in 2021, Nessa Barrett turns hexes into dark-pop hits.
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But so can characters pushing the knickknack/plaything boundary, like porcelain figurines and piggy banks.
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Sandplay therapy involves a therapist observing and interpreting how a child plays with a tray of sand, water and figurines within the tray.
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The show took home two statuettes in 2025 for outstanding talk series and outstanding directing for a variety series.
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Going forward, songwriters and composers of new material on winning albums in most genre album categories will receive Grammy statuettes and achievement certificates, bringing their recognition in line with producers and engineers.
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“Rag doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rag%20doll. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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