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• Despite installing puppet governments in the marches, the subjects of the empire’s conquered territories were still very conscious of living under heterarchy.From the entry heterarchy
• They’re puppets, doing the bidding of the hectobillionaires.” Ciara had never heard that word before.2023, Terence McAdams, “Venomous Reef”, in Biocode – Endeavour, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN, chapters 11 (Venomous Reef) and…. From the entry hectobillionaire
• Thankfully, a pair of events last Friday the 13th provided a perfect double feature of puppet perversity.2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando…. From the entry maniac
• That's why Billy makes frequent references to "sock puppets", because he's scared of them all.2013 April 16, Benny4urThoughts, “Re: Typical Leftists: Party to celebrate Thatcher's death.”, in tx.guns (Usenet). From the entry pupaphobia
• Japan Society will honor it with kamishibai, a traditional form of puppet theater.2007 May 4, The New York Times, “Spare Times for Children”, in New York Times. From the entry kamishibai
• Like puppets, the wood danced in the air as it was unloaded.2004, Debra Porter, Lucid Dream: A Healing Allegory, page 36. From the entry pullstring
• I landed on the handle of the cart and hurt my meat puppet.2003, Richard Herring, Talking Cock, page 206. From the entry meat puppet
• He much preferred direct control, Caliban as meat puppet who would do his bidding unquestioned .2002, Robert Devereaux, Caliban and Other Tales, page 190. From the entry meat puppet
• A nonexecuting program is the limp puppet without a hand, an empty shell.1998, David Hillel Gelernter, Machine beauty: elegance and the heart of technology. From the entry nonexecuting
• Camera is focusing on a large puppet in a bathtub, singing.1998 October 14, KaraOhki, “[Pokemon/Sesame Street][Fanfic] Error in Judgement”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry tubbie
• There's some guy, kneeling down near your crotch, working the puppet.1992, Paul Rudnick, chapter I, in I Hate Hamlet. From the entry chipmunk voice
• Li Shih-chün had connections with the judicial section of the puppet hsien government in Ch'in-shui.[1976, “A Cave with Two Entrances”, in Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and…. From the entry Qinshui
• Based around Chekiang Province Hangchou shadow puppets are made of lambskin, with only one side painted with colors.(Can we date this quote?), “Features of Shadow Puppets Flash”, in Kaohsiung Museum of Shadow Puppet- 戲說皮影戲, archived from the original on…. From the entry Chekiang
• It appeared the puppets were divided, half good half bad, like all children were, or for the most part.2020 October 28, Mark Roland Langdale, “A Night at the Old Toy Shop”, in The Toy Museum: The Boy Who Gave His Birthdays Back, Kibworth…. From the entry baddy two-shoes
• We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet.2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”…. From the entry rig
• You are no puppet of this superself.2012, Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks. From the entry superself
• It is also a form of reductiveness that only the hands and the voice are required for working a puppet.2006, Ian Gregson, “Philip Roth’s Vulgar, Aggressive Clowning”, in Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction (Continuum Literary Studies)…. From the entry celebratoriness
• The string puppets in Taqian Town, in Yanping District of Nanping City, Fujian Province, enjoy a long and rich history.2002 October, Wang Shiliang, “Daqiang Puppets”, in China Tourism, number 267, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80, column 2. From the entry Yanping
• CFIDS, even bigger than a medical giraffe, is almost like Sesame Street’s elusive giant puppet Snuffleupagus—witnessed only by believers.2000, Peggy Munson, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. From the entry Snuffleupagus
• On closer inspection it definitely is a fox-shaped hand puppet!1999, Joe Inglis, It Really Does Happen to a Vet! The Journal of Joe Inglis in Practice. From the entry kleptocat
• With Bazin gone, there was not even a puppet government.1996, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, “Hope”, in Carrol F. Coates, transl., Dignity, Charlottesville, Va.; London: University Press of Virginia…. From the entry resipiscence
• You simply become a puppet in the hands of others who will make you dance to their tune.1995, M.K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy, →ISBN. From the entry dance to someone's tune
• Sigibert III of the Merovings was a mere puppet under the control of his Mayor of the Palace.1988, Bob Stewart, Charlemagne: Founder of the Holy Roman Empire, page 7. From the entry Meroving
• But these had been seized by the puppet village heads and had fallen into the hands of the Japanese invaders.1978 November, “A Great Diamond”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 11, →OCLC, page 36, columns 1, 2. From the entry Tancheng
• Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations.1939 January, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVI, number 1 (369), →OCLC, page 211. From the entry Kaifeng
• Of the 22 districts under the "East Hopei Administration", 17 have now deserted the Japanese and their puppets.1938 August, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXV, number 8 (364), →OCLC, page 388. From the entry Tangshan
• These are the actions of a club flailing around to make things work, not the 4D chess moves of some Machiavellian puppet master.2021 August 5, “Messi’s Departure Is a Mess Everyone Could See Coming”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2021. From the entry machiavellian
• How could she restore the faith of the council, or at the very least keep from being unchaired or made a puppet?2020, Carlana Van Houten, Music of the Soul: Prelude. From the entry unchair
• For anyone with coulrophobia (fear of clowns), pupaphobia (fear of puppets) or who merely wants a nights-are-getting-longer novel, here's one that'll chill you good.2016 October 15, Terri Schlichenmeyer, “New novel tells creepy tale of horror”, in Daily Corinthian, volume 120, number 249, page 5. From the entry pupaphobia
• When a nineteenth-century English performer tried presenting a more moral puppet show, with Punch getting his comeupance, audiences would have none of it.2005, Eileen Blumenthal, Puppetry: A World History, page 153. From the entry comeupance
• One of the reasons why the central tradition looked with suspicion on the puppet theatre is that it functioned as an exorcistical ritual (Ruizendaal, unpublished).2005, B. Arps, Performance in Java and Bali, page 18. From the entry exorcistical
• The next two series entries, shot back to back, return to present day and continue to portray the puppets as good guys.2001, Richard B. Armstrong, Mary Willems Armstrong, Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series, page 163. From the entry back to back
• Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along.2001 February 22, Andrew Finkel, Frank Pellegrini, “Can Turkey Be Plucked From Its Financial Meltdown?”, in Time. From the entry go along to get along
• He, too, was a meat puppet.1998, Luke Sullivan, "Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This": A Guide to Creating Great Ads, page 164. From the entry food chain
• On 14 April, Military Region V in coordination with the Navy Command liberated the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands held by the Saigon puppet troops.1986, History of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, →OL, page 253. From the entry Truong Sa
• And most of the major characters are made into puppets to prove the thesis that America "whitenizes" blacks and converts everyone else into "freaks."1982, Best Sellers, volume 42, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, page 85. From the entry whitenize
• (Mao's) reliance on simplistic Soviet interpretations was reflected in his dismissal of Hitler as "a mere will-less puppet of the reactionary capitalists."China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War, Stanford University Press, 1968, →ISBN, pages 211–. From the entry simplistic
• I wos gimcracked right inta the middle o' these murders like a puppet on a string an' I'm the one ta wrap that string around the puppetmaster's neck.2015, William J. Palmer, The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens. From the entry gimcrack
• When the puppet is finished, we wander through the farmer's market and stop at the local foods booth, where our friend Aaron lets us sample farm-direct apriums.2010, Michael Perry, Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg, page 216. From the entry aprium

Meaning of puppet

1. noun Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
2. noun A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
3. noun A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.

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How do you use puppet in a sentence?

Puppet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Despite installing puppet governments in the marches, the subjects of the empire’s conquered territories were still very conscious of living under heterarchy.”

What is a short sentence with puppet?

“He, too, was a meat puppet.”

What does puppet mean?

Puppet means any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.