How to Use marionette in a Sentence

marionette

noun

• Think of yourself as a marionette with a string pulling you up straight from the top of your head.
  — Madelyn Fernstrom, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2019
• Spivey is the last to leave the stage, using a deeply-bent-knee gait, marionette-like — but still alive.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Right away, some wondered whether Red would be the puppeteer and Russ would be the marionette.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
• The marionette’s right leg is exposed because of a tear in the uniform.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• Think of the pins as marionettes with nylon cords attached to their heads.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• In the clip, the band performs the song in a puppet theater with marionettes dancing around them.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• When Françis-Claude was born in 1948, his parents put marionettes in his crib.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• First, there's sagging or loose skin on the face and body, which includes sagging of the jowls, sagging of the central face, and marionette lines.
  — Deanna Pai, Allure, 12 June 2024
• At the back of the group, Graham Feeny stands with arms outstretched and the other five dancers react like marionettes.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• Fungus starts to direct the ant's behavior, telling it where to go, what to do, like a puppeteer with a marionette.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
• The snippet showed a man with dark skin moved around like a marionette by a large white hand before cutting to the entrance of the Petit Colon cafe in Buenos Aires.
  — Christoph Rauwald, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2020
• Hanging from the cables used to lower it from the lander to the ground, the rover resembled a high-tech marionette dangling on strings.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2021
• Before that, Evans didn’t think much about marionettes.
  — Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• He’s become a marionette in his own life, months after he got married and began the planning process of dreams.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
• This one danced like a marionette as he was shot down in a Chicago intersection.
  — Elizabeth Alexander, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• On the tops of Carias’ hands are tattooed marionette controls; on his right hand Baker’s name is inscribed as a tribute.
  — Joelle Estelle Mendoza, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The snippet showed a man with dark skin moved around like a marionette by a large white hand before being snipped into the entrance of the Petit Colon cafe in Buenos Aires.
  — Time, 20 May 2020
• Now Hughes is looking more closely at how the fungus pulls the strings on its insect marionette.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2011
• In the clip, which features a white-noise soundtrack, a model’s legs ankle-breakingly stretch to the side and pull upward like a marionette.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2018
• By the end of the trailer, the character has applied full marionette corpsepaint to his face and donned a black trench coat, marching gun in hand, towards his foes.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
• Men in lab coats substituted for Spring; for Fall ’98, marionettes created by stylist Jane How took the stage.
  — Vogue, 10 Nov. 2015
• The answer may lay with a contraption that looks like an oversized record player with a human marionette on top.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
• Much harder to learn is a marionette, such as Howdy Doody, which is operated, on strings, from high above the puppet’s head.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2018
• This effect is achieved not via CGI or makeup but rather a life-sized marionette, a pleasingly off-putting lo-fi technique.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 28 June 2024
• Or, kids can use the rolls to make marionette puppets with instruction from volunteers.
  — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• Can the bacteria in our bodies control our behavior in the same way a puppetmaster pulls the strings of a marionette?
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010
• Biden is an aging marionette dancing for the progressive wing of his party.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2024
• Visit Schönbrunn Palace, enjoy a marionette show, or learn to make strudel while in Vienna.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2024
• An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Sep. 2024
• There’s a man in the spotlight, with what appears to be a marionette doll over his knee and another journalist, this one conspiratorially close on his other shoulder.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024