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 -
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 doctor returns with what looks like a glove made of finger puppets.
— Allie Rowbottom, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
The day includes an awesome puppet show, crafts, special treats and much more.
— Sharon Hlapcich, Orange County Register, 27 June 2024 -
This puppet is designed in a way to convey so much emotion.
— Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2022 -
The ingenious spider then acts as a puppet master, pulling the strings of its web to make its creation dance.
— Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022 -
Vashti Arsala performs a puppet show for her mother, Maeve Roughton, and a young visitor in the garden’s pop-up play area.
— Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024 -
The success of Little Amal was undeniable— Two million people came out to the streets to witness the puppet’s journey, and tens of millions more followed online.
— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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