figureheadin a sentence
figurehead as in: she is just a figurehead
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Is she a real leader or a figurehead?
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The administration fired all employees hired under the junta's civilian figurehead government.
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I don't want to be just a famous figurehead, but if I think I can genuinely make a difference, I'd like to take a turn leading the organization.
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On the street: multicolored neon angels, in silhouette, leaning out from the tops of the buildings like ship figureheads.† (source)
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The transparent elected have been used as figureheads, shielding the backroom from view.† (source)
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Fore and aft rose thirty-foot-tall figureheads shaped like snarling wolves.† (source)
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She was sitting up in the bow, like a figurehead.† (source)
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Always she waited, her eyes straining to make out the figure on the prow, and always, at the sight of those strange, glistening white figureheads, her heart sank.† (source)
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As the captain hauled at the anchor, I walked up to the prow to examine the figurehead I had seen.† (source)
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Soldiers broke into his house, ransacked his snail collection, his shells, his butterflies, his bottles, the ship figureheads he had rescued from so many seas, his books, his paintings, and his unfinished poems, looking for subversive weapons and hidden Communists, until his old poet's heart began to falter.† (source)
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He's smart enough to be president, but he says he has no interest in being a figurehead.† (source)
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I found a number of odd economic bedfellows who I think may be using Canadian figureheads to buy up Canadian properties.† (source)
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When the forklift driver had the crate secured, Owen hopped on one of the tines of the fork— he rode thus, the short distance across the runway to the waiting hearse, like the figurehead on the prow of a ship.† (source)
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She saw huge flat-bottomed barges too, heaped high with crates and barrels and pushed along by twenty polemen to a side, and fancy floating houses with lanterns of colored glass, velvet drapes, and brazen figureheads.† (source)
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One moment he was the captain of his own pirate ship—a happy place, crewed by obedient eleven-year-olds, except for the girls, who were all a year or two older than Nick and who looked especially pretty in their pirate costumes—and the next he was alone on the deck, and a huge, dark ship the size of an oil tanker, with ragged black sails and a skull for a figurehead, was crashing through the storm towards him.† (source)
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For indeed, we are nothing but figureheads to complex forces which seem to be under a kind of impulse.† (source)
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"Well," August said, going right on with her pasting, "you know, she's really just the figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary, and so the spirit of Mary took it over."
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figurehead = decorative statue at the front of a ship
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