How to Use crash test dummy in a Sentence

crash test dummy

noun
  • Calls for an accurate female crash test dummy date back decades.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 21 Nov. 2025
  • And a crash test dummy's story starts way before they're buckled in for a collision.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The new crash test dummy will help better assess how seatbelts, airbags, and other vehicle parts impact small female occupants.
    — Sarah Lapidus, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Earlier crash test footage shows crash test dummy drivers getting absolutely pulverized on impact.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 18 June 2026
  • These half-ton animals are such a danger to drivers that Volvo moose-tests every one of its models with a life-size rubber moose crash test dummy that weighs nearly 800 pounds.
    — Kristin Shaw, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
  • The vehicle was occupied by a front seat crash test dummy that was intended to represent an average-sized adult male and a back seat dummy that was intended to represent a small adult or a 12-year-old child.
    — Keith Laing, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • Fischer introduced legislation, the She Drives Act, that would require the most advanced testing devices available, including a female crash test dummy.
    — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Fischer introduced legislation, the She Drives Act, that would require the most advanced testing devices available, including a female crash test dummy.
    — Jeff McMurray, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2025
  • One of the most effective seat belt campaigns was the crash test dummy commercials that NHTSA produced in the 1980s and 1990s.
    — Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Jonathan Morrison, an administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said this new crash test dummy is crucial to reducing traffic fatalities.
    — Sarah Lapidus, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The standard crash test dummy used in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration five-star vehicle testing was developed in 1978 and was modeled after a 5-foot-9, 171-pound man.
    — Jeff McMurray, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The standard crash test dummy used in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration five-star vehicle testing was developed in 1978 and was modeled after a 5-foot-9 (175-centimeter), 171-pound (78-kilogram) man.
    — Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025

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