puppet

Example Sentences

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“Puppet-chella … meeeeooowww!” boomed the puppet as she took the stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

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

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

Made fun of a particularly hilarious photo of me when I was three, which was fair because I look like a sock puppet in it!

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio