[
UK
/mˌæɹɪəʊnˈɛt/
]
NOUN
- a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
How To Use marionette In A Sentence
- Perry, in a fishing jacket, moving like a marionette that swallowed a pneumatic drill.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio is the story of a wooden marionette whose greatest ambition is to become a real boy. Archive 2007-07-01
- A marionette danced on strings, a jester decking in bells and bright red and yellow.
- The figure dances, like a marionette whose strings are pulled by popular music; yet the figure is also flexible, suggestive perhaps of the flexibility of style itself.
- I chose to start with the medical exam because I wanted to show the weakness of the human body in a situation in which the body seems to be moved by strings, like a marionette.
- I have to admit that my heart sank when we learnt that the Marionettentheater's version of Mozart's Magic Flute was complete, unabridged, entirely in German and would last 21/2 hours - but we needn't have worried.
- Folklore also surrounds Belgium's traditional puppet theater, whose marionettes are based on characters from the tales of their particular cities.
- She herself has worked backstage for a marionette theater in Minneapolis, and she taught calligraphy for years.
- Reaching out, the fingers started waggling like a marionette having its strings being pulled.
- The exhibition is on view until December 31 and includes ceramics, bone and metal implements, goblets, pitchers, fragments of marionettes, and Chinese porcelain.