puppet

Example Sentences

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Ortiz admits it was an adjustment to work with a puppet he didn’t design himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

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

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

“I can do that puppet show for you now. Come to the barn.”

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker