noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
glove puppet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
glove
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The second uses glove puppets and is performed from a small booth to animate smaller crowds.
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Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn, and stood for a long moment, sagging.
hand
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Right now she's carrying around a soft hand puppet , and takes it to her basket each night.
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Andy is a hand puppet , and John's favourite.
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Their ingenious green creations included a submarine, car, baby's rattle, hand puppets and board games.
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Big Ted and Andy the Mouse, his hand puppet , are in the bed with him.
show
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Was she remembering the last puppet show ?
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Will: For little kids it was better as a puppet show .
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On my third shelf, I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me.
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The kids did some finger-painting and watched a puppet show and had a few stories read to them.
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The man behind the craze is currently touring the country in a one man and his puppets show .
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Entries are invited from groups representing cabaret, dance, mime and puppet shows .
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Such a fuss about a puppet show !
state
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The head of that puppet state , Josef Tiso, was executed for war crimes in 1947.
theatre
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The workroom was extremely tidy and four chairs were set in a row in front of the puppet theatre .
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Last weekend the highlights were marionettes miming to Die Fledermaus at the puppet theatre and a country music festival.
■ VERB
make
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Junk materials are sometimes used to make puppets .
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Meanwhile, I was making shadow puppets on the floor.
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Example 4 Another group of children were helping to make a puppet .
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Go stand in a field somewhere, paint each other's faces, make some puppets .
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Intrigues between various factions striving to make the king their puppet continued throughout his minority.
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Will he make the puppets dance?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During the 70s many Eastern European leaders were merely puppets of the Kremlin.
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He was considered a puppet of the ruling party.
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In 1290, Edward I set up a puppet government in the Scottish lowlands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is using them like puppets.
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If you draw a face on it, even a paper bag can be a puppet .
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Pete: wag your head like a puppet .
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Right now she's carrying around a soft hand puppet , and takes it to her basket each night.
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The puppets happen to be aliens.
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You can not use my daughter as your puppet , Saja!