puppet

Example Sentences

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She said there had been a campaign in the 70s to find the puppet and no-one knew it had been taken by people on a day trip to London.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 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

Dunk, a hedge knight who cannot abide the strong preying on the weak, might have intervened regardless of his romantic feelings for Tanselle, the Dornish puppet master who treated him kindly.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

It was their second year at the Chinatown event and they made a day of it, with purchases that included a lion dance puppet, Pokémon goods and even some milagros, small charms, from Olvera Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

As tracking data from the spaceship filtered into Mission Control, the toy capsule moved along the orbit grooves on the map too, a puppet controlled by its master in the sky.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly