marionette

Example Sentences

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He would sometimes refer to himself as “the marionette.”

From Washington Post

“You’ve probably seen that famous photo of Albert Einstein holding a marionette of himself. That was a marionette that those guys made at the Turnabout Theater.”

From Los Angeles Times

In other scenes as other people, she flops about with the weird violence of a marionette playacting a vixen only to become that sex object after a blood sacrifice.

From Salon

Specifically, the show creators paint a world where the zombie-ant fungus would enter people’s bodies and control their movements like a “a puppeteer with a marionette.”

From Washington Post

Start by lifting your knees up one at a time, like a prancing marionette.

From Washington Post