How to Use puppet in a Sentence

puppet

noun

• There’s all the puppets involved — the size, the lengths and the heights of the puppets.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
• Craig Leo, the show’s puppet master, is in charge of Michael’s head and right arm.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The puppets want more than anything to be part of a story.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Russians have been watching the puppet show and can see the strings.
  — Douglas London, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• The Little Amal puppet mingled with the small crowd at Rowes Wharf.
  — Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Now that is threatened by a politician who used to be viewed as the army’s puppet.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• The puppeteers are not the only artists giving the puppets life.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Any bit of dirt or grease that is within you seems to just come up onto the puppet.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
• The show culminates with the arrival of the solstice puppet.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2022
• He’s got the kind of thin awkwardness befitting a puppet, the kind where the head looks too heavy for the body.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2022
• His bed is a mattress pad in the theater, in a closet of puppet dolls.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
• Del Toro’s film is one of three movies this year to center around the world’s most iconic puppet.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 27 July 2022
• Hear great stories, watch puppet shows, sing songs, do zany dances and more.
  — Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
• Children’s games, crafts, puppet shows and live music will be part of the free fest, as well as a chance to see whales.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The process started at a puppet boot camp led by a master puppeteer.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
• The all-puppet band featured on the show then began touring the country with a live stage show.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Sep. 2021
• The doctor returns with what looks like a glove made of finger puppets.
  — Allie Rowbottom, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Jeff Goldblum plays the Wizard of Oz, a lanky charmer who might be a jerk at best and a puppet of fascists at worst.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
• The 90-minute play is not really about a puppet possessed by the devil.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• Another shows her on the ground, folded in half like a puppet with its strings cut.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 June 2023
• But what ended up happening was, that was the first puppet job of many.
  — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2021
• Sarah races outside and the mother chases her, jerked along as if on puppet strings.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
• But the only character that leaps off the screen is Alpha, a genuine puppet in the year 2023.
  — William Earl, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• Still, that creepy puppet with the bow tie (Billy, to those in the know) does wheel into view like an old buddy with bad news.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• In 2014, Ukrainians rose up and kicked out Putin’s puppet Victor Yanukovych.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The set comes with four silicone finger puppet toothbrushes and a copy of The Brushies Book.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
• How about getting your news from a sheep puppet instead?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Okay, here’s the description of the breakup, here’s the introduction of the grandparents, here’s the puppet.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 May 2024
• Fortunately, there's more fun in store from the puppet pals!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• Then Galen was sort of like this strange, technical puppet master in the background.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024