How to Use stooge in a Sentence

stooge

noun

• He's just a stooge for the oil industry.
• But then nor does a charge leveled by Putin and his stooges.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
• The same could be said of Pence’s tenure as stooge and mouthpiece.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• And Donald Trump has just been a stooge for Putin from the beginning.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 25 Feb. 2022
• Truss turned out to be a stooge for Boris Johnson, Maureen Dowd writes.
  — Ashley Wu, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• Amazon is not the only business guilty of playing the stooge, of course.
  — Marco Rubio, National Review, 3 Feb. 2022
• Cobra installs a stooge as the ruler of Alaska, Gerky Potemkin.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
• Cream pie out of respect to many a great stooge who cruelly had the sweet treat shoved or thrown onto their face.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
• Posey knew his guy was auditioning to become the fourth stooge.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• Despite what could be a thankless role as a government stooge, he more than keeps up with the cogs turning around him.
  — Karen Han, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• His comments are those of a stooge for Russian aggression.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022
• The veteran bass Paul Plishka smoothly dispatched the roles of the stooges Benoit and Alcindoro.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• Belichick stooge Greg Schiano landed on his feet with a big bag of money at Rutgers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Haringhton is a Maduro stooge who has had her assets frozen in the U.S. for her role in jailing innocent protesters.
  — John Fund, National Review, 9 July 2017
• The former businessman certainly cannot be called a stooge for the weed industry.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• And yet the stooges in movies like Zoolander come in handy as providers of an alternative mother lode of teachable moments.
  — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 1 June 2017
• Figured his former pals were using reporters as stooges.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• Hard to believe this is America .. watch yet another Trump stooge.
  — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 18 June 2018
• Who would compromise with a Russian stooge or a secret jihadist, after all?
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 14 June 2017
• His Sheeran’s a lethal stooge, morally dumb with dead blue eyes and willing to perform any act of loyalty or betrayal.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2019
• Stalking the herd is easier than stalking the old and wary lone bull, which has been expelled from the flock by the young bloods, or stalking an old bull with an askaria young bull that serves as stooge and bodyguard to the oldster.
  — Robert Ruark, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
• Fitting right in with blind mice, musketeers, stooges, little pigs, & amigos.
  — Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
• She is routinely denounced as a traitor and a stooge of foreign powers on state-television programs.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• Back then, Putin cast the mostly urban middle class protesters as Western stooges, part of a spoiled elite at odds with the country’s majority.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• The character of Tricia, rather than just being the usual parent/victim/stooge in an attack-of-the-kid-from-hell horror movie, has a devious agenda.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
• The owner of an independent candy shop and the corporate stooge who has been sent to shut her down begin an unlikely romance.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Many others denounced him as a stooge of Washington, unduly critical of Russia’s war aims and prospects.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• Gordo, of course, is just a stooge who represents something larger: the corrupt superstructure that allowed America, in the wake of 9/11, to trash its own values.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• Having clerics lecture jailed terrorists on interpretations of the Koran won't work if the extremists assume the clerics are stooges of the state.
  — Carla Power, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Detractors have accused Mousa of being a stooge candidate, sanctioned by the regime to give the election a veneer of legitimacy.
  — Sheena McKenzie, Ian Lee and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024