What is "ventriloquial"

Usage examples of "ventriloquial".

Napoleonic forelock, frowns in ventriloquial exorcism with piercing eagle glance towards the door.

It had a quality definitely ventriloquial, seeming to come from many places far away rather than any definite spot.

There was briefly audible the small trilling sound, exotic and ventriloquial in quality, which was the thing he did in moments of mental surprise.

I cannot say it comforted me to theorise this lady was, to some degree, possessed, and so was perfectly within her rights to refer to herself in the third person in that ventriloquial, insubstantial voice that scratched the ear as smoke scratches the back of the throat.

He rose, as the principal character in a Punch and Judy show rises, with jerky articulations of his members from the ventriloquial depths below.

There was only one man who still stood out, and that was the silly little ventriloquial barber Compton, who would be prating.

Homer sat drinking with the barber, whose shrill ventriloquial voice could be heard going through his set pieces again and again, followed by the deep rumbling tones of the half-drunk Homer growing confidential.

In that cavern, on the crackling waves of the copper globes, it was possible to produce a ventriloquial effect that had never before been attained.

It might have been the note of some fantastic tropical songster, so vague that it all but defied recognition, and possessed of a ventriloquial quality which made it seem to come from everywhere.

It was a strange, ventriloquial voice, and not one in the party had the least idea from whence it came.

Savage made his voice take on a ventriloquial quality, so that its source was doubtful.

It was weird, might have been the work of a vagrant wind in the naked mangroves and it had a ventriloquial quality that made it seem to come from everywhere.

It followed no definite tune, and it had ventriloquial quality which made its exact source difficult to determine.

It was low, with a ventriloquial quality that made it seem to come from everywhere in the room, yet from nowhere.

Doc Savage was speaking, perspiring a little with the effort of making the ventriloquial voice loud enough to reach the entire crowd.