puppet

Example Sentences

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Firmin explained that her mother made the replacement puppet when the original could not be found.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

The puppet, from the children's TV series The Clangers, was taken in the early 1970s.

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

The puppet had lost an arm at the shoulder.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull