How to Use dummy in a Sentence

dummy

adjective
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  • 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
  • His money was safe; the hack had sent him to a dummy Web site.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • That caused the blank to propel the dummy round out of the barrel, striking Lee.
    — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Long Colt dummy rounds had arrived on the set that day.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • But the gun contained dummy rounds, and at least one lead bullet.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • When the cannon fired, in the pups plunged, struggling adorably to return the dummy fowl to their owners.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • About half took the antidepressant at home for 10 days, the rest got dummy pills.
    — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • So did 28% of those in the group given a dummy injection.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The second time, it was loaded with both dummy rounds and a live bullet.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn’t supposed to be any live rounds on the set.
    — Tina Burnside, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • 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
  • To their surprise, several sharks ignored the swans and swam straight for the dummy bales.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • In their place were dummy heads made of plaster, flesh-tone paint and real human hair, the FBI said.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 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
  • 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
  • The training event – including a 165-pound dummy drag and a sprint to a 6-foot wall climb – was a vital step for Ms. Rivera.
    — Cathi Douglas, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Five live rounds mixed in with dummy rounds were found on set following the shooting.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Everyone will be watching from the lodge to see each dummy soar!
    — Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • One was in an ammunition box with a bunch of dummy rounds.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • That compares to about a third of youngsters given the dummy patches.
    — Lauren Neergaard, The Enquirer, 11 May 2023
  • Ford will also make some small tweaks for the 2024 model year, such as removing a dummy charge port on the front.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The test photos showed the body of the child-sized dummy careening grotesquely outside the protection of the seat belt.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 July 2021
  • The report also found that there were four different kinds of dummy rounds on set.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The staffer used the dummy Pages to deliver fake likes to Hernández’s posts, the digital equivalent of bussing in a fake crowd for a speech.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The prosecution has argued that Gutierrez Reed brought that box to the set and failed to distinguish between the dummy rounds and the live rounds.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024

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