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How to pronounce puppet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms creature, tool
Type of slave
Type Words
Synonyms marionette
Type of figure
Derivation puppeteer
Type Words
Type of doll, dolly
Has types glove doll, glove puppet, hand puppet
Derivation puppeteer

Examples of puppet

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Over in puppet wardrobe, designers are laying out a doll-sized negligee and bra.
From the cnn.com
Puppet-sized Moe attempts to kiss human-sized Katy on the mouth but can't reach.
From the abcnews.go.com
He essentially relegated his prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, to a puppet position.
From the theatlantic.com
Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet.
From the time.com
A tent was pitched in the courtyard and soon small puppet-like figures appeared.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
Besides, ID creationism was only a puppet for the religious creationists anyway.
From the scienceblogs.com
In this file photo provided by PepsiCo Inc., an Eminem puppet likeness is shown.
From the dailyherald.com
One of his campaign people alleged that Prime Minister Allawi was like a puppet.
From the edition.cnn.com
He made the emperor his puppet and became the real master of the imperial court.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
  • Creature: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
  • 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
  • A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by a puppeteer. It is usually - but by no means always - a depiction of a human character, and is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre. ...
  • Puppet is an open source configuration management tool. It is written in Ruby and released under the GPL.
  • "The Puppet" is the third single by the band Echo & the Bunnymen and was released on 14 September 1980.
  • (Puppets (film)) Puppets is a 1916 short drama film directed by Tod Browning.
  • Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings, rods or in the form of a glove; A person, country, etc, controlled by another
  • (Puppets) If you dream that puppets are coming to life in your dream then don't panic, there's actually a man controlling them somewhere behind and it's just a show. If they are glove puppets and have no faces and only one arm then this means that you don't recognise oven gloves when you see them.