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How to pronounce ventriloquist in English?

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Type Words
Type of performer, performing artist
Derivation ventriloquism, ventriloquy

Examples of ventriloquist

ventriloquist
When I was a little kid, I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist.
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Ever the ventriloquist, he tried his hand at the style, and went a stage further.
From the guardian.co.uk
Dunham is in the forefront of a handful of other ventriloquist success stories.
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McGee has been a ventriloquist for 30 years and has performed internationally.
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A side-show ventriloquist forms an underground trio with a strongman and a midget.
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By the time he was 21 was working in vaudeville as magician and ventriloquist.
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At the recreation center there will be a magician, clown and a ventriloquist.
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In October 2008, he had a minor guest role as an injured ventriloquist on Casualty.
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In other words, why do we swoon for the dummy rather than the ventriloquist?
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
More examples
  • A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
  • (ventriloquism) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
  • The Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker) is a fictional character, a supervillain and enemy of Batman in the . The Ventriloquist first appears in Detective Comics #583 (February 1988) and was created by Alan Grant, John Wagner and Norm Breyfogle. ...
  • The Ventriloquist is an album by Ruby Throat, a musical act consisting of Katiejane Garside (frontwoman of Queen Adreena) and Chris Whittingham. It was released on 8 November 2007 on a limited run of only 500 copies. ...
  • A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism
  • To dream of a ventriloquist, denotes that some treasonable affair is going to prove detrimental to your interest. If you think yourself one, you will not conduct yourself honorably towards people who trust you. ...
  • N.s. [ventriloque, Fr. venter and loquor, Lat.] One who speaks in such a manner as that the sound seems to issue from his belly.
  • (1927) (short subject listed in BFI Database)
  • Is an alias of two DC Comics villains, both enemies of Batman.