How to Use puppeteer in a Sentence

puppeteer

noun
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  • Many of the puppeteers have been with the troupe for eight years.
    — Laura Latzko, azcentral, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The groom, who is 30 and known as Will, is a puppeteer in Charleston.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2017
  • Both the bear and Yoda are brought to life by puppeteer Frank Oz.
    — Chris Barlow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The group is then controlled by a puppeteer as the boys begin to fly.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The puppeteer, Donald Trump, is shining a light on the strings.
    — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • This was a job for Grant Lehmann, puppeteer and ear wrangler.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • They were then brought to life on the Vancouver set by a team of puppeteers.
    — Jen Yamato, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
  • Of course, those were fake paws, as handled by a puppeteer.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Those are the obsequious words the puppeteer has been waiting to hear.
    — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • The frosting on the cake was a performance by puppeteer Brad Shur.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Being a puppeteer on a show Kim watched growing up was a dream come true.
    — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Being a puppeteer on a show Ms. Kim watched growing up was a dream come true.
    — Terry Tang, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Right away, some wondered whether Red would be the puppeteer and Russ would be the marionette.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • The way this production is done, there are five puppeteers.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The puppeteers, though, are always in Michael’s service.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • If the puppeteer is really seeing the thing, the audience will see the thing.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The process started at a puppet boot camp led by a master puppeteer.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • So a lot of my costuming and designs of characters were in shapes and forms to hide the puppeteers.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The Circle of Life, the puppeteer, the machine, and the representation of a herd of gazelles, leaping.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Ron Workman, 76, a puppeteer and ventriloquist, drove five hours from Amery just to be in the plaza.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2021
  • Glover joked in reference the puppeteers behind The Muppets and Sesame Street.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 July 2019
  • Her ambition was never to be the center of a story but to be a puppeteer.
    — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The cast runs to 24 actors, many of them also puppeteers, with a small fleet of crew members to make the whole show seaworthy.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In all, Jones had four puppeteers working on the two animals.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This is Trump as puppeteer, with McCarthy and Scalise dancing to his preferred tune.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Caramella was the unseen voice and puppeteer behind Babe Junior the Blue Ox.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Through gestures and miming, Carias learned how to become a puppeteer.
    — Joelle Estelle Mendoza, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • One of its four puppeteers, Leo, arrived in New York this week from Mexico.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Operated by a puppeteer just out of frame, the Facehugger on Wu’s mug even breathed, and Wu had to match her own breathing to it.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Sven is a puppeteer (Collin Baja and Dan Flehal at alternate performances) with stilts and levers inside a giant reindeer body that moves with the dexterity of a greyhound.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2024

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