Examples of marionette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022 The answer may lay with a contraption that looks like an oversized record player with a human marionette on top. — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022 In addition to the puppetry’s metaphorical overtones of manipulation, a historical fact justifies the conceit: Levin ran a marionette theater in Chicago in the 1930s. — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022 Born in Davos, Switzerland, in 1889, Taeuber-Arp was a textile artist, sculptor, dancer, painter, and marionette maker; her sprawling body of work united in a cheerily colorful abstraction. — Marley Marius, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021 One of those finds, a dusty marionette, became the inspiration behind her latest public artwork. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021 One of those finds, a dusty marionette, became the inspiration behind her latest public artwork. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021 One of those finds, a dusty marionette, became the inspiration behind her latest public artwork. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021 One of those finds, a dusty marionette, became the inspiration behind her latest public artwork. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021 See More

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