Example sentences for: puppet

How can you use “puppet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Elected to the US Senate, he still controlled Louisiana from Washington, having installed a puppet in the governor’s office.

  • In March 1920, the Kapp Putsch brought 5,000 of the storm-troopers into Berlin with an obscure civil servant, Wolfgang Kapp, installed as puppet chancellor.

  • The Axis powers rolled in and carved up the region: Albania's Fascist government, headed by a puppet of Mussolini's, seized the biggest chunk, while Bulgaria and Germany each occupied a strip.

  • The editorial described Sonia Gandhi as "stiff and inarticulate" and said many people considered her "a ventriloquist's puppet and an instrument of a self-serving coterie."

  • The Los Angeles Times dismissed Sinn Fein boss Gerry Adams as "a puppet of the IRA's hard men."


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