Example sentences for: puppets

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

  • The MoMA exhibition, composed entirely of oil paintings, ignores Bonnard's dazzling drawings, lithographs, decorated screens, book illustrations, set designs (for Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi , for Nijinsky ballets), puppets, and masks, thus obscuring both the breadth and the nature of his career.

  • The First Pavilion, designed in the Singaraja style, displays antique Balinese textiles; the Second Pavilion, in the 18th century Karangasaem style, houses religious and ceremonial objects; the Third Pavilion, designed in the style of the Tabanan Regency, displays artifacts used in music and dance, including a collection of masks, puppets, and costumes.

  • The small timber and bamboo theater is mounted on stilts, and the puppets are seen as sharply etched shadows cast on a white cotton screen by a lamp hanging from the roof of the theater.

  • There’s also an enchanting collection of bunraku puppets — a rare chance to see them at close range.

  • The puppeteers, dressed all in black, are initially distractingly visible on stage, manipulating and walking around with their puppets — yet completely “disappear” from your perception as the magic of the drama sweeps you away.


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