What is "ventriloquist's dummy"

Usage examples of "ventriloquist's dummy".

Seth, carrying the RV jacket over his arm and making me feel rather like a ventriloquist's dummy, started to stroll out of Cargo Bay Fourteen.

Jody can do a fake Chinese spiel that'll just kill you -- like a hysterical ventriloquist's dummy.

It made him look less the handsome, successful executive and more like an antique ventriloquist's dummy.

Sean pulled her sock over his hand, stuck one finger through the hole in the toe, and wiggled it like a ventriloquist's dummy.

A sudden snap, instant pain and his jaw wasn't working any more, a ventriloquist's dummy that had bust a spring.

He'd started out life as a ventriloquist's dummy, and never really got over it.

He was grinning, a ventriloquist's dummy, cheek muscles tightened by shrinkage.

What he had taken for a man in a green crash helmet, he now saw was a ventriloquist's dummy.

In it, one of them, heavily rouged and powdered, acted as a ventriloquist's dummy for the other.