I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
doll's house
kewpie doll
rag doll
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
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Fifi had already decided on her baby doll and Carla was going through her private box of jewelry and mementos.
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A few minutes later, as she continued this type of play the baby doll got scared while sleeping.
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Ben will have to be told that if he takes his baby doll outside he will be ostracized.
rag
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This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.
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Maddened by the limp rag doll banging against his legs, he veered to the left.
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This was how he remembered her, rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death.
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He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll .
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The second was propped, ungainly as a rag doll , against the far wall.
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She looked like a rag doll .
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Can't you see how obscene it is to get him dressed up and wheel him around like a big rag doll ?
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That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed, limp and helpless as a rag doll .
■ VERB
dress
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As a child she preferred playing games with boys to dressing up dolls .
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She was engaged in dressing a doll for the bazaar which loomed nearer and nearer.
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You ought to be dressing dolls Like other sisters.
hold
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She never held her doll in her arms as a little girl.
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Despite other examples around her and recommendations, Monica held her dolls and children as she had been held as an infant.
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Her own four daughters held their dolls in a like manner when they first began to play with them.
play
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It plays with dolls but can not get interested.
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She kept to herself, and played with her Barbie doll during break.
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After the film, each child was left alone in a room to play with a Bobo doll .
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Since fathers rarely have experience baby-sitting or playing with dolls , most lack the familiarity with babies that their wives have.
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For example, she plays with dolls and pretends they are real people.
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She would play dolls with another girl, for example.
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In later years I always played with the doll alone, never sharing her with my friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Cabbage Patch doll dries on the clothesline.
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During the intervening seven years, he has become replacement therapy for little girls who have just donated their dolls to Oxfam.
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I done buried people with Bibles, canes, crutches, guitars, radios, baby dolls....
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Other nights, I listened to pneumatic tubes, and I was a doll on a shelf in a cavernous department store.
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Then he took out one of those dolls, each piece of which unscrews to reveal a smaller doll within.
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Then she got some toy bricks and built a little house for the mummy doll and a little house for the daddy doll.
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This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I doll myself up at dusk.