How to Use puppet in a Sentence

puppet

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fortunately, there's more fun in store from the puppet pals!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The name Henson has been synonymous with puppets for around 50 years.
    — Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • The spindly puppet would then go on to assist Jigsaw in the latter's murderous games.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • As Foer makes clear, Biden is running the show rather than a shadowy group of puppet masters.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Since 2021, Fator and his puppet friends headlined a new show titled Who's the Dummy Now?
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023
  • One of the stories is based on the Kotzebue mermaid legend, the Nuyakpalik Unipkaak, and it is told through a puppet video.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And, yes, Abla and her family are puppets existing in a human world but don’t tell them that.
    — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The meatball heads were cast members putting their heads inside of a meatball puppet made by Monkey Boys Prods., who do all the puppets for the show.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Ali and Abu Reem retreated behind the partition for the second act: a puppet show.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The puppet’s antics also put him on the radar of a couple unseemly fellows.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Host a Shadow Puppet Show Using a flashlight as a spotlight, host a shadow puppet show on the tent walls.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There was a program in England called Spitting Image that used puppets as satire.
    — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023

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