: the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows
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: the art of manipulating puppets
Examples of puppetry in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebBut this is not a story about children’s television, though the details of the production and the puppetry are convincing enough.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024 Though there’s ample footage from early Henson efforts in puppetry, as well as his experimental short films plus archival interviews with his late wife Jane, Howard has to fill in a lot of visual gaps.—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024 The show, arriving May 7, 2025, won acclaim for telling the story of a man trapped on a raft with a tiger for its creative puppetry and staging, and walked away with three Tony Awards last year for its design.—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 17 May 2024 The mostly stop-motion science fiction/fantasy film eschewed dialogue in favor of visual storytelling and incorporated puppetry and live-action performances.—Jamie Lang, Variety, 9 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for puppetry
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