Marionette

//ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt//

"Marionette" in a Sentence (11 examples)

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

No... you're just a simple marionette.

I thought of making myself a beautiful wooden marionette.

I want a piece of wood to make a marionette. Will you give it to me?

As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a marionette.

"Poor Pinocchio, I am sorry for you." "Why?" "Because you are a marionette and, what is much worse, you have a wooden head."

"I promise you," answered the marionette, sobbing, "that from now on I'll be good."

Quick as a flash, the marionette sank his teeth deep into the Assassin's hand, bit it off and spat it out.

To my mind this marionette is dead and gone; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is still alive!

"I am sorry," said the Owl, "to have to contradict the Crow, my famous friend and colleague. To my mind this Marionette is alive; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is wholly dead!"

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If you think we are worked by strings, Like a Japanese marionette, You don't understand these things: It is simply Court etiquette.

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