puppet

Example Sentences

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The puppet, from the children's TV series The Clangers, was taken in the early 1970s.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Firmin said the person who took the puppet "did the right thing" to confess.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 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

And even though there are puppets, he doesn’t call “almighty Opp” a puppet show.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Nate loved the sidewalk puppet shows and jugglers who spun torches on the street corners.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis