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.

  • Maybe it was too much picturing-- The sheared wing thrust from the sea, Torsos afloat like hand puppets in a tub, The grim business of the divers, nosing through The ribs of Business and Coach--that brought on This nosebleed hampering me all morning.

  • Originally, all the brightly colored puppets were made from cow, buffalo, or goat hides, but today the minor characters are turned out in plastic and celluloid.

  • When a sleek and derisive colleague named Maxine (Catherine Keener) rebuffs his advances and mocks his art, Craig argues passionately on behalf of his puppets: He says that everyone longs to be inside someone else's head.

  • Don’t be misled: bunraku is theater for adults rather than children, using the same dramatic themes, stories, and conventions as in noh and kabuki but achieving a unique impact with the almost life-sized, colorfully costumed puppets.


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