marionettes in English

noun
1
a puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs.
For us, real marionettes, string marionettes , produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.
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1. At the moment it's marionettes Louise: Marionettes?

2. She reminds me of marionettes I have seen.

3. Strong ministers were still their own men; the weaker degenerated into marionettes.

4. Didn't you say you wanted to see the marionettes?

5. Hanns Ebensten describes the puppets as' marionettes, on strings, about fourteen inches high.

6. It is almost as if the muscles controlled the fingers as marionettes are controlled by their strings.

7. Last weekend the highlights were marionettes miming to Die Fledermaus at the puppet theatre and a country music festival.

8. Soon the idea no longer seems absurd, and the audience quickly forgets that they are watching lifeless marionettes.

9. Like many of the new generation of puppeteers, Tiplady grew interested in his trade through object animation rather than traditional marionettes.

10. Visitors were intrigued by the live specimens, marionettes and innovations such as the Mouse Alert and the mini bubble.

11. Marionettes are puppets guided by strings attached to the body and limbs of the puppet. A puppeteer above the stage controls these strings.