Puppet

//ˈpʌpɪt//

"Puppet" in a Sentence (12 examples)

I have lived a life of a puppet of fortune.

The Foreign Minister was a puppet.

During the 20th century, Manchukuo was a puppet state.

A puppet does not know that it is being controlled.

This puppet is my only friend.

There's a puppet in the box.

Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

Australia is a puppet state.

This corporation is a political puppet.

Their country is a puppet of a Western power.

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These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose

Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.

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