How to Use marionette in a Sentence

marionette

noun

• Think of yourself as a marionette with a string pulling you up straight from the top of your head.
  — Madelyn Fernstrom, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2019
• Spivey is the last to leave the stage, using a deeply-bent-knee gait, marionette-like — but still alive.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Right away, some wondered whether Red would be the puppeteer and Russ would be the marionette.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
• The marionette’s right leg is exposed because of a tear in the uniform.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• When Françis-Claude was born in 1948, his parents put marionettes in his crib.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• At the back of the group, Graham Feeny stands with arms outstretched and the other five dancers react like marionettes.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• Fungus starts to direct the ant's behavior, telling it where to go, what to do, like a puppeteer with a marionette.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
• The snippet showed a man with dark skin moved around like a marionette by a large white hand before cutting to the entrance of the Petit Colon cafe in Buenos Aires.
  — Christoph Rauwald, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2020
• Hanging from the cables used to lower it from the lander to the ground, the rover resembled a high-tech marionette dangling on strings.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2021
• Before that, Evans didn’t think much about marionettes.
  — Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• He’s become a marionette in his own life, months after he got married and began the planning process of dreams.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
• This one danced like a marionette as he was shot down in a Chicago intersection.
  — Elizabeth Alexander, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• On the tops of Carias’ hands are tattooed marionette controls; on his right hand Baker’s name is inscribed as a tribute.
  — Joelle Estelle Mendoza, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The snippet showed a man with dark skin moved around like a marionette by a large white hand before being snipped into the entrance of the Petit Colon cafe in Buenos Aires.
  — Time, 20 May 2020
• Now Hughes is looking more closely at how the fungus pulls the strings on its insect marionette.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2011
• In the clip, which features a white-noise soundtrack, a model’s legs ankle-breakingly stretch to the side and pull upward like a marionette.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2018
• Men in lab coats substituted for Spring; for Fall ’98, marionettes created by stylist Jane How took the stage.
  — Vogue, 10 Nov. 2015
• The answer may lay with a contraption that looks like an oversized record player with a human marionette on top.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
• Much harder to learn is a marionette, such as Howdy Doody, which is operated, on strings, from high above the puppet’s head.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2018
• Or, kids can use the rolls to make marionette puppets with instruction from volunteers.
  — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• Can the bacteria in our bodies control our behavior in the same way a puppetmaster pulls the strings of a marionette?
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010
• The roots of marionette variety shows, which use stringed puppets, stretch back hundreds of years to the Italian commedia dell’arte, Herzog said.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
• Topo Gigio was a sort of cross between a puppet and a marionette; three puppeteers, hidden in a black background, moved various body parts with rods.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• The copilot was still strapped into his seat but the pilot was hovering overhead against the ceiling with his arms and legs hanging down like an enormous marionette.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Slip into a green chair pondside, go jogging, play tennis or basketball, sail a toy sailboat, or take in a chess game or marionette show.
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
• When the family revived the shows several decades ago, Mike Manteo made marionettes in his Brooklyn shop.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• If Ratatouille met the bear in his Parisian restaurant, he would be eaten alive while trying to steer his human marionette, Linguini, to safety.
  — Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
• According to the marionette traditions, when the performance is over, the curtains are lifted to reveal who is controlling the strings.
  — Didem Tali, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
• The faces of the humans are like identical stiff marionettes, the French soldiers different from Americans only due to facial hair.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The place of women artists in the days for which Marcotte seems nostalgic was to be the marionettes for powerful (and usually male) producers and songwriters.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 June 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024