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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dolly.

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Examples

  • Justin strode into the scene as cameras dollied around him.

    Double Down Franklin W. Dixon 2009

  • Camera Three dollied in for a close-up of the swarthy stranger.

    Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

  • The camera dollied back to include the two people seated on either side of Tom Brokaw.

    A STRANGER IS WATCHING MARY HIGGINS CLARK 1977

  • I like to see girls all dollied up in squffly lace over-skirts, -- or whatever you call

    Patty's Butterfly Days Carolyn Wells 1902

  • We have got water in our shaft at 137 feet, enough to run a battery, and we shall have one on the ground in three months 'time or under, Egan dollied out 1,000 oz, in a little over two months, before I came down, from his reef; and Cashman dollied 700 oz. out of his in about three weeks and had one stone 10 lbs. weight with 9 lbs.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • The man who recoiled from playing for people sitting quietly 20 or more feet from his piano loved to talk or perform as a bulky TV camera dollied in for a closer view.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011

  • At 24 frames, blurriness was very evident when the camera panned or dollied along the dinner table and when two knights dueled with swords.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Knowing the former president was in the house, they dollied themselves up to look like Bill Clinton AND Monica Lewinsky.

    Winnipeg Sun 2010

  • Knowing the former president was in the house, they dollied themselves up to look like Bill Clinton AND Monica Lewinsky.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • Director Mark Brokaw's flat, over-dollied adaptation of Rebecca Gilman's sanctimonious play (co-scripted by Gilman and Doug Atchison) approaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing.

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

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