Of course you can learn little by hacking at a straw dummy.

As they reached a corner the last monk turned and lightly tossed a little drum into the outstretched arms of a straw dummy.

He jounced painfully and his arrows went everywhere except in the straw dummy.

A line of straw dummies was set up before canvas hangings.

The final picture showed the gorillas attacking a line of straw dummies, which hung from an overhead stone support.

Where, after all, was the third straw dummy?

They hurriedly cut down the remains of the straw dummies and began lashing new ones to the supporting poles.

I want to see them spearing those straw dummies when I return, not each other!

The man in the center was tossing them around as if the skilled protection agents were mere straw dummies.

They would sometimes mount straw dummies on their spare horses to make themselves appear more numerous.