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Example sentences for: puppet

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

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."
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.
"A young Audrey Hepburn as refashioned for the post-grunge crowd" (Elysa Gardner, Entertainment Weekly ). Cynics contend she's a "producer's puppet," a pretty face who can't write songs or sing (David Thigpen, Time ).
Analysts see this as bad news for Clinton on the settlement front (since Jones' new lawyers seem eager to go to trial) but good news on the PR front (since it plays into the White House line that Jones is a puppet of Clinton's enemies).
The word matachines can translate to mean “clowning” or “trickery,” but can also mean “puppet player,” “jester,” and “buffoon.”