puppet

Example Sentences

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She said there had been a campaign in the 70s to find the puppet and no-one knew it had been taken by people on a day trip to London.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Firmin explained that her mother made the replacement puppet when the original could not be found.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

As usual, she spoke without moving her mouth, which could only have been creepier if she’d had a ventriloquism puppet.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan