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Meanings of marionette in English

Portuguese
marioneta
Catalan
titella

A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer.

marioneta
Usage of marionette in English
1
The marionette spoke with a slight falsetto-notquite man, not quite woman.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
2
This the marionette did willingly, for he felt the need of it.
Pinocchio in Africa
3
The poor marionette tried to eat as much as the others did.
Pinocchio in Africa
4
Then the marionette awoke with a struggle and a cry of fear.
Pinocchio in Africa
5
Of course only a marionette could go as fast as he did.
Pinocchio in Africa
6
He told her that he was making films and a marionette theatre.
The new yorker
7
Is it like a marionette then, waiting for you to move it?
Brotherhood of the Wolf
8
Continue to watch the marionette, or attack and carry off the giraffe?
Pinocchio in Africa
9
But the wind was buffeting him, propping him up like a marionette.
Sons of the Oak
10
How did anyone know we were going to have a marionette show?
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
11
There was a grotesque suggestion of the marionette in the movement.
The Crimson Blind
12
The marionette will probably pay back my money, with interest, in many ways.
The Illustrated Man
13
As he spoke the marionette started forward, walking rapidly in the hot sun.
Pinocchio in Africa
14
Blair's image was that of a marionette, a puppet of the American president.
The Guardian
15
There was nothing of the conventional operatic marionette in these men.
Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
16
A group braver than the rest now approached the marionette and surrounded him.
Pinocchio in Africa
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