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Example sentences for "marionette"

Lexicographically close words:
marine; mariner; mariners; marines; marins; marionettes; marique; maris; mariscal; marisco
  1. He called Harlequin and Pulcinella and said to them: "Bring that Marionette to me!

  2. I can't drink it like that," the Marionette said, making more wry faces.

  3. A little because of the sharp pain in his legs, a little because of fright at finding himself alone in the darkness of the field, the Marionette was about to faint, when he saw a tiny Glowworm flickering by.

  4. Tomorrow I end my days as a Marionette and become a boy, like you and all my other friends.

  5. When he recovered his senses the Marionette could not remember where he was.

  6. Farmer John took the Marionette to the well and showed him how to draw the water.

  7. When I come to think of it," said the Marionette to himself, as he once more set out on his journey, "we boys are really very unlucky.

  8. If the poor Marionette had dangled there much longer, all hope would have been lost.

  9. Crying as if his heart would break, the Marionette mourned for hours over the length of his nose.

  10. He kissed each Marionette in turn, even the officers, and, beside himself with joy, set out on his homeward journey.

  11. On reaching the oak tree, you will find a poor, half-dead Marionette stretched out on the grass.

  12. Would you allow me," the Marionette asked the Carabineers, "to run after my cap?

  13. One of them grabbed the Marionette by the nose and the other by the chin, and they pulled him unmercifully from side to side in order to make him open his mouth.

  14. She never became a marionette to be dressed and undressed and jigged, horribly and impersonally.

  15. There was nothing of the conventional operatic marionette in these men.

  16. There were two theatres--one, as I understand the matter, entirely for marionette shows; the scenery was regarded at the time as excellent.

  17. Esterház--many of them for the Marionette Theatre--and was content if they pleased his patron.

  18. This marionette represents the figure of a man, and was named Maka-kú (pl.

  19. The marionette expresses its delight and approval by nods and gestures, to the immense satisfaction of the audience, who join in derisive laughter at the expense of the person held up to ridicule.

  20. At this the marionette nods assent, and the hoopaa asks again, "Do you wish him to come to you?

  21. Marionette entertainments were known both to the Greeks and the Romans.

  22. Maeterlinck himself told Huret that his intention was to write "a play in Shakespeare's manner for a marionette theatre.

  23. But we have seen that Maeterlinck had described his very first play as a drama for a marionette theatre; and the three 1894 plays are not a whit less adapted for the ordinary stage than those which preceded them.

  24. He is still mingling with his scientific, literary, and agricultural studies, beautiful marionette shows.

  25. On the day that I am no longer in a rage, I shall fall flat as the marionette from which one withdraws the support of the stick.

  26. On the day that I am no longer outraged, I shall fall flat as the marionette from which one withdraws the support of the stick.

  27. He has made for his marionette theatre, marvelous scenery, properties, and machinery and the plays which they give in that ravishing box are incredibly fantastic.

  28. He ordered the outbreak and in a skillful manner pulled the strings which worked the figures which formed the performers in the marionette revolution.

  29. Punch and Judy is the simplest form of marionette performance, and the marionette has a place in every street in history just as the dolls' house has its corner in every palace and cottage.

  30. Jefferson at last orders war; for he sees that otherwise Marionette Madison will be defeated of a second term.

  31. Jefferson, working the machinery from Monticello, replaces him with Marionette Monroe.

  32. At Washington, Madison a marionette President, is in apparent command, while Jefferson pulls the White House wires from Monticello.

  33. Throughout the full two terms of Marionette Monroe, Aaron urges his crusade against Jefferson, the Virginia junta, and King Caucus.

  34. Barkers" in plate armor manufactured out of ancient kerosene tins from which the odor has by no means departed, vie with ridiculous clowns and short skirted dancers in proclaiming the attractions of their rival marionette and "minstrel" shows.

  35. Though we did not expect marionette shows to be given in a very splendid auditorium, we were scarcely prepared for this, rather hesitating to enter.

  36. The city folk are equally artless, with their tiny marionette theaters, their homeless meals in the open air markets, their goat-blessings, their innumerable other feste.

  37. He built a great palace at Esterhaz, where there was a theater, in which opera was given, and a smaller one where there was a marionette company, the machinery of which had been brought to great perfection.

  38. I should like to do so," the Marionette answered, "for it is our last meeting.

  39. So now," sighed the little lady Marionette to her partner; "so now the play is over.

  40. It was just as well," the Marionette answered, "since he could use it to no better purpose.

  41. It was the little Marionette who was not in time.

  42. And people passed in and out, and to and fro, but the little lady Marionette lay unobserved--alone and unhappy in her corner of the counter.

  43. The little Marionette thought a few moments, then shook her head.

  44. Yes," she said as the little Marionette remained silent.

  45. The little lady Marionette patted the paniers of her pretty brocade dress and remained silent.

  46. And going into the room at the back of the shop, she drew a rocking-chair near the cheerful blaze of the bright fire and sat down, still clasping the little Marionette in her arms.

  47. No, it isn't; not to me," answered the little Marionette very sadly.

  48. In recent days the literature for the marionette stage has had an important literary recruit in the person of the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck.

  49. Of course, no one could take Sardanapalus seriously, any more than if he were a marionette pulled by strings instead of the sort of live marionette he really is.

  50. Mrs. Masters, casting her vote as chaperone, chose the Marionette Theatre tucked away under the shadow of the Broadway Jail.

  51. They had reached the door of the Marionette Theatre now.

  52. Now it is coming," she thought, and suddenly froze to a spectator of the marionette show.

  53. She had pulled the string and the marionette moved with precision.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marionette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ball; bat; battledore; bauble; block; bust; carving; checkerboard; club; doll; dummy; figure; figurehead; figurine; gimcrack; jacks; mannequin; marble; marionette; model; monument; pinwheel; plaything; puppet; racket; scarecrow; sculpture; snowman; sport; statuary; statue; top; toy; trinket; waxwork