How to Use puppet in a Sentence

puppet

noun
  • Each new puppet is a work of art.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • There were pros and cons to using each puppet.
    Emma Forgione, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The kids are sure to love the life-size puppets and jamming tunes.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Hear great stories, watch puppet shows, sing songs, do zany dances and more.
    Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Inside lives a puppet of her friend Yo.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Just some poor meat puppet named Doug, with no powers at all.
    Ew Staff December 5, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025
  • How was using the puppet on set with the actors?
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The puppet is one thing — and the tools can create a great puppet.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Rairdin-Hale designed all of the masks and puppets for the show.
    Paige Fumo Fox, Daily Southtown, 13 June 2019
  • Russians have been watching the puppet show and can see the strings.
    Douglas London, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Give your total trust and be a happy puppet.
    Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Why did Cher ride a life-size elephant puppet at one point in the show?
    Ed Masley, azcentral, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Any bit of dirt or grease that is within you seems to just come up onto the puppet.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The puppet’s short stature was a metaphor, Shenderovich said.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The others had to be hand-raised, or to be precise, puppet-raised.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Now that is threatened by a politician who used to be viewed as the army’s puppet.
    Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • One time my mom gave me this Muppet-like puppet that my aunt had bought for me.
    Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Letting the puppet off its string when race talk was on the loose was the show’s big mistake.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2021
  • There’s all the puppets involved — the size, the lengths and the heights of the puppets.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • There are skeletons and the Day of the Dead puppets.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There are acrobats, there are life-sized puppets.
    Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The jaguar drinks from the wading pool (the puppet has a tongue) while Brine swings above.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 20 June 2019
  • The screaming hamster is its own puppet.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2026
  • His bed is a mattress pad in the theater, in a closet of puppet dolls.
    Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • The process started at a puppet boot camp led by a master puppeteer.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Most see him as a puppet of the politicians who have plundered Iraq.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But what ended up happening was, that was the first puppet job of many.
    Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2021
  • So spring of 2027, a stage show, all me, dancers, puppets, all my ideas.
    Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026
  • The doctor returns with what looks like a glove made of finger puppets.
    Allie Rowbottom, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Collins, for instance, cast Allred as a Pelosi puppet in one ad.
    Tom Benning, Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020

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