How to Use puppetry in a Sentence

puppetry

noun

• All the rest, in the usual way of thriller fiction, is puppetry and plot.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Most of it is in the basement of a church where after school the kids learn how to do puppetry.
  — Jessi Virtusio, Daily Southtown, 15 Feb. 2018
• Zamora and the creators bandied about a host of ideas for how involved the puppetry should be.
  — Clint Worthington, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2021
• Her work has opened the doors for other Black women to do puppetry.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 21 Sep. 2023
• Basil Twist’s avant guarde puppetry is recognized all over the world.
  — Carl Swanson, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
• There was puppetry and song and thousands of homemade signs and banners.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• All blessings to anyone who saw such potential in the puppetry and waved that young man in.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 30 July 2022
• For Sesame, much of its core programming was built around puppetry.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• Venture through the Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh and friends, all portrayed through life-size puppetry.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• The two became fast friends, and Severns shared puppetry resources and tips with Lambert.
  — Paula Mejía, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• Part of that is the puppetry and the Jim Henson animatronics that are already so iconic in terms of the lore.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
• Strickland and MacDonald, Fringe vets and ace storytellers, use song, puppetry and light — such clever use of light — to set the creepy mood.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
• At that point, in a bit of cosmic puppetry, the descent stage lowered the rover gently to the surface on nylon cables.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Feb. 2021
• There are also nods the Japanese form of puppetry known as bunraku and the bamana puppetry of Mali.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Watch this puppet slam — short-form puppetry for adults — a performance that takes stabs at Valentine’s Day and love.
  — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• UConn boasts one of the highest regarded puppetry programs in the country.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• This adaptation of Charles Dickens has been streamed online, now adapted for the first time with puppetry and music for the stage.
  — Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2022
• Jeremy Davis brings the goofy-sweet, bouncy snowman character of Olaf to life through puppetry, dance and song.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• Muppet-style puppetry meant keeping the body out of the camera frame and using monitors to see how the puppets looked on screen.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
• Who would've thought that a bunch of fuzzy puppetry—minus Kermit but plus a narrating Ludacris—would add up to such a good time?
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2022
• The show, which is being done with classic puppetry and modern VFX, could be magical—or not.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• With your stop-motion film, what was gained by telling the story of this puppet through actual puppetry?
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Think of shadow puppetry, the ancient precursor to movies.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• At the top of the puppetry ecosystem sit the puppeteers like Clash, who with the rise of Henson and the Muppets increasingly have emerged from the improv-comedy world.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
• The films focus on real-time puppetry, allowing artists to build their vision and then breathe life into them.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• String, hand, rod, shadow – all the great puppetry forms are represented.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• The complicated puppetry used to make the show was detailed in a behind-the-scenes documentary, The Crystal Calls.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• As its name suggests, the Bread and Puppet Theater is dedicated to two types of art: baking and puppetry.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• There are some brilliant bits of staging as Jelly Roll encounters the only white characters in the show — played by the Black ensemble using masks or puppetry — who ensure that a Black genius won’t get too uppity.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 June 2024
• This is done with fairly traditional puppetry rather than modern animatronics.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024