How to Use sock puppet in a Sentence

sock puppet

noun

• The one with the parents who ponied up the big bucks to bring you to a show featuring flashlights and sock puppets?
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• Remember when the alien sock puppet bursts its head out of John Hurt’s chest?
  — Kenneth R. Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018
• The sock puppet show was averted; Kenwright came through.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Williamson’s left foot came shooting out of the bottom of the shoe, looking like an escaped sock puppet.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• One had a peacock sock puppet during the Oklahoma game last month.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2022
• There, the performer shares videos with Lamb Chop, the sock puppet who entertained generations of kids.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• The name of the sock puppet account that created my article, for one: Queen-Washington.
  — Wired, 11 Nov. 2019
• To that end, one of Art and Culture Center’s galleries will be morphed into an arts-and-crafts room throughout the summer, where patrons can build their own sock puppets with loose fabrics and beads.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2019
• The guide instructs them to each create numerous online personas, sometimes called sock puppets, that look and sound like real people.
  — Richard Stengel, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
• McLaughlin's motives for creating the sock puppet account are also puzzling to many.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2020
• Whether sock puppet accounts get taken down will depend on each platform’s individual terms of use, Lampe said.
  — Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• Expect sock puppets, instruments made from toilet paper tubes, and plenty of dancing.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• The scale of the operation piqued his interest, so Oak set up a few sock puppet Facebook accounts and began joining groups offering free Amazon products for review.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
• Also at both those locations will be Lamb Chop, perhaps the most memorable — and feistiest — sock puppet of all time, who appeared on children’s television for 40 years with her ventriloquist co-star, Shari Lewis.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Cryptocurrency’s biggest boosters would do well to remember tech’s most infamous sock puppet.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
• This one really has it all: Broadway-level choreography and costumes, a sock puppet show, Harvey Korman dancing alone in an empty bowling alley, and the real-life version of that dreamy zoom-in effect on Instagram stories.
  — Liz Arcury, Marie Claire, 29 Nov. 2018
• This has partially been pursued by hacking opposition figures directly but also through sock puppet accounts, which pit one faction of the opposition against another.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Occasionally, however, sloppiness—failing to delete old tweets or accidentally posting pro-regime messages on opposition sock puppet accounts—have revealed their likely affiliation with IRI intelligence.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024