Definition of "ventriloquial" []

• Of or relating to ventriloquy (adjective)
• Spoken to oneself (adjective)

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• "The symphony began, and was soon afterwards followed by a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin."
• "a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin."
• "There were seven species of grasshopper, almost half the Norfolk total, and they were all singing from one single patch of grassland – a melange of hissing and purring sounds of different pitches and varying lengths that was made all the more maze-like by the individual insects 'huge ventriloquial powers."