Marionette is an English word with synonyms like puppet or figure. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Marionette meaning
- A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
- The buffel duck.
Using Marionette
- The main meaning on this page is: A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings. | The buffel duck.
- Useful related words include: puppet, figure.
- In the example corpus, marionette often appears in combinations such as: marionette that, of marionette.
Context around Marionette
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Marionette
- In this selection, "marionette" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, baker, two, cowboy, theater, dancers and work stand out and add context to how "marionette" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 18th century marionette companies began and a cowboy marionette that can. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "marionette" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with marionette
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Similarly, his "marionette" work was found after his death. (9 words)
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre is located in the Swedish Cottage. (10 words)
Mime, mask & marionette: a quarterly journal of performing arts, I.3 (fall). (12 words)
Scissor walking (where the knees come in and cross) and toe walking (which can contribute to a gait reminiscent of a marionette) are common among people with CP who are able to walk, but taken on the whole, CP symptomatology is very diverse. (43 words)
Tottenham are a different team when Eriksen is on the pitch: mostly that is for his invention and the way he seems to gently control games as if he is a delicate marionette operator, but this time it was his finishing. (41 words)
In the latter half of the 18th century, marionette companies began to give way to glove-puppet shows, performed from within a narrow, lightweight booth by one puppeteer, usually with an assistant, or "bottler," to gather a crowd and collect money. (41 words)
Example sentences (18)
Forest Lawn Museum at Forest Lawn-Glendale: Ongoing special exhibit: “Bob Baker Marionette Theater: 60 years of Joy & Wonder,” through March 19. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
He directed the underappreciated movie, which had the unfortunate timing of being a sincere kids' movie with marionette-like puppets released the same year as Team America: World Police.
Earlier this month, many onlookers in the Burlington area saw something unusual in the sky: a large transport helicopter flying overhead with a smaller craft dangling below it like a marionette.
It was underwhelming, a little long and didn't do a good job of selling its story of two marionette dancers trying to break free.
My nephew will have nothing to do with a cowboy marionette that can not shoot fire out its rear like a Pokemon.
Similarly, his "marionette" work was found after his death.
This New York company is known for its work with marionette puppetry, per co-founder Erik Sanko, and for its focus on collaborative, multimedia theatrical production and design, per co-founder Jessica Grindstaff.
When Carli, a teenager, wants to run away from home, she applies for a job with the mysterious Professor Pinecone and his traveling magical marionette puppet show.
Joseph Cashore presents “Life in Motion” with his collection of marionette masterworks Friday at 7 p.m. at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater.
Tottenham are a different team when Eriksen is on the pitch: mostly that is for his invention and the way he seems to gently control games as if he is a delicate marionette operator, but this time it was his finishing.
A marionette 's arms are manipulated by strings, but Henson used rods to move his Muppets' arms, allowing greater control of expression.
For example, of a Dutch marionette that Victor becomes occupied with repairing in the episode "Hole in the Sky", eventually leading her to destroy it.
In the latter half of the 18th century, marionette companies began to give way to glove-puppet shows, performed from within a narrow, lightweight booth by one puppeteer, usually with an assistant, or "bottler," to gather a crowd and collect money.
Mime, mask & marionette: a quarterly journal of performing arts, I.3 (fall).
Puppetry and marionette exhibitions are very popular, with a number of puppet festivals throughout the country.
Scissor walking (where the knees come in and cross) and toe walking (which can contribute to a gait reminiscent of a marionette) are common among people with CP who are able to walk, but taken on the whole, CP symptomatology is very diverse.
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre is located in the Swedish Cottage.
The characters of Candide are unrealistic, two-dimensional, mechanical, and even marionette -like; they are simplistic and stereotypical.
Common combinations with marionette
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- marionette that 2×
- of marionette 2×