(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(2) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
(3) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(4) Senior Coalition members backed the minister, while accusing unions of being Labor’s puppet masters.
(5) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
(6) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(7) Extreme discomfort and anonymity are the chief challenges faced by puppeteers.
(8) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(9) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(10) Three- and 4-year-olds attributed knowledge and perceptual experience to the person (either themselves or the puppet) who had viewed the hidden object, but not to the person who did not view it.
(11) Nothing that transformed the writer into a glove puppet of the manipulators of the media was acceptable to him.
(12) The program includes a self-instructional package presented by a children's puppet.
(13) No, you’re the puppet.” She said the intelligence agencies blamed election-related cyberattacks on Russia.
(14) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
(15) Things that you really wouldn't think about, like for example, you never use the word 'puppet'.
(16) Plans for the show, which has the working title No Strings Attached, are for a puppet presenter interviewing real life celebrities.
(17) With two people to a puppet, synchronised co-ordination was a new challenge.
(18) Anatomical dolls, medical puppets and stuffed animals, toys and games, as well as replicas of medical equipment and furniture are now available to demonstrate more clearly to patients what will be happening to them.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
(20) On the first day of every workshop, there would be a new Joey puppet with new joints or parts, and I'd always go say hello to him.