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 -
The roots of marionette variety shows, which use stringed puppets, stretch back hundreds of years to the Italian commedia dell’arte, Herzog said.
— Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019 -
An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet.
— Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Sep. 2024
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