[
UK
/pˈʌpɪtɹi/
]
[ US /ˈpəpətɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈpəpətɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets)
- the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows
How To Use puppetry In A Sentence
- And an ingenious harvest scene uses shadow puppetry to spellbinding effect. Times, Sunday Times
- It is the first glove puppetry museum in Taiwan.
- This puppetry show starring a hunk of mattress foam is a fast-moving hoot. Times, Sunday Times
- And there is inspired use of puppetry. Times, Sunday Times
- In Tarantino's Kill Bill, genres are mashed, smashed, and encouraged to fornicate in order to form whole new subgenres - it's a blend of action movie, anime, horror, graphic novel, cheesy samurai movie and Chinese shadow puppetry (i.e. the scene where Uma Thurman fights the bad guys/girls behind a screen in silhouette.) MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
- This 'puppetry' as you call it is only temporary until the final elections are held.
- This is how glove puppetry was used. Times, Sunday Times
- This puppetry show starring a hunk of mattress foam is a fast-moving hoot. Times, Sunday Times
- A magical world of puppetry, song, and dance. Times, Sunday Times
- I was tired of being accused of puppetry.
