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US
/ˈpəpət, ˈpəpɪt/
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[ UK /pˈʌpɪt/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌpɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
- a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
How To Use puppet In A Sentence
- It is about leading one's own life. It is about not being the puppet or the slave of the choices and desires of others.
- I had the distinct sensation that I was a puppet of an addictive manipulator, that there was a kind of sinister hand which was forcing me in directions that I didn't like.
- You speak as though we all exist as helpless puppets ordained to live a certain way, and that to struggle against this cookie-cutter is wrong and futile. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
- If you look at the guys left in the battle, you ask who is the puppet master, who belongs to who? The Sun
- The dramatic spirit of the Italian race seems to communicate itself to the puppets, and they perform their parts with a fidelity to theatrical unnaturalness which is wonderful. Venetian Life
- Ancelotti is poised to become the puppet master of this summer's transfer dealings. The Sun
- A female puppet with a fine, domed forehead entered, swishing black velvet.
- With inebriated puppets and an eerie soundtrack, consider it a shoddier predecessor to Thunderbirds. 2009 June : Scrubbles.net
- But a gracefully minimal style of puppetry is also used to enhance the action. Times, Sunday Times
- Put them in an arena, live coverage, president vs. prime minister, king vs. emperor, dictator vs. puppet ruler. It'll be like Unreal Tournament, except more fun.
