Example Sentences

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Blond Chyna’s puppetlike white face to stylist Ronben’s blue cyber eyeliner mask.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

Jesse Obremski, in an early solo, is especially uncanny in his puppetlike physicality, an eerie hollowness possessing his eyes and limbs.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

Behind them is another wall with puppetlike images of people, animals, and trees; behind this wall is a fire.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Here, Shannon’s zany, puppetlike, dad-on-a-safari physical energy might earn him a pass.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

Something is wrong with Peeta’s legs; he’s trying to walk but they move in a spastic, puppetlike fashion.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins