puppet

a puppet show; a puppet government.

overturn a puppet regime

all the puppets came to life again.

humanized the puppets with great skill.

vivify a puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands.

He jerked the string and the puppet jumped.

The children staged an entertaining puppet show.

stick paper shapes on for the puppet's eyes and nose.

They were mere puppets manipulated by other men.

Scene: The Tosa painter's house; Character: Matahei; puppet head used: Matahei.

We watched a performance which included a puppet show and acrobatics.

For the original filming of Star Wars, the dewback was a mechanized lifesize puppet featuring limited articulation.

The heads of the Awaji puppets move constantly, and not just to signal nameable emotions but to tell us, in a general way, that these creatures are alive.

He saw people as puppets, controlled by some pitiless force much as he, in boyhood, had controlled his own marionettes in his toy theatre, making Mr Punch jibber and squawk in nonsense-language.

When Pinocchio is a puppet, he wears gloves.

Oh, look. Ugly Naked Guy is making shadow puppets.

This is a puppet, a gigantic inflatable one.

You've become a puppet of your society.

Who's up for puppets? - Me! I'm up for puppets!

At first, I was interested in these lovely shadow puppets.

They say she's a puppet for her brother.

He became a puppet and tool to further her image.

Now you can make a friend for your sock puppet.

Sometimes I feel like this big ol' puppet, you know?