DOLL in a Sentence

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75 example sentences for DOLL, such as:

1. The girl clutched her doll to her breast.
2. She had not yet beheld that doll close to.
3. We used to doll ourselves up and go into town.
4. The little girl likes to babble about her doll.
5. The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOLL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
doll
 n.  a child's toy in the shape of a small person or baby
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that wonderful doll, towards the lady, as she called it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
2  She had not yet beheld that doll close to.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
3  The whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a vision.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
4  With the sad and innocent sagacity of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from that doll.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
5  Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
6  They had a doll, which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous chatter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7  You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
8  As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of anything which comes to hand.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
9  The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
10  The first child is the continuation of the last doll.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
11  A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
12  So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her arms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
14  The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
15  But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth lighted it up very vividly.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence:
1  The child clutched the doll to her arms and would not show it to anyone.
2  We used to doll ourselves up and go into town.
3  I was just admiring the detail in the doll's house - even the tins of food have labels on them.
4  The girl clutched her doll to her breast.
5  I'm not going to doll myself up just to go to the shops.
6  The little girl likes to babble about her doll.
7  I sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than before.
8  Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there.
9  The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.
10  While searching for a way to augment the family income, she began making dolls.
11  Every Friday she dolls herself up and goes out to a nightclub.
12  Margaret loved her graduated set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.