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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then her legs gently folded and she subsided slowly on the step, ungainly as a marionette .
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At the moment it's marionettes Louise: Marionettes?
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Hanns Ebensten describes the puppets as' marionettes, on strings, about fourteen inches high.
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Perry, in a fishing jacket, moving like a marionette that swallowed a pneumatic drill.
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She reminds me of marionettes I have seen.
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Strong ministers were still their own men; the weaker degenerated into marionettes.
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Thus wired, many patients feel like a clumsy marionette .
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Visitors were intrigued by the live specimens, marionettes and innovations such as the Mouse Alert and the mini bubble.