One who operates puppets or marionettes

Usage examples of puppeteer.

In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.

I found myself arguing with some faceless audience in my mind--the Bunraku puppeteers, I suppose--insisting that, with all the precautions I had taken, I was more likely to be attacked by killer bees than to get pregnant.

The Bunraku puppeteers seemed to be crowding around me, somber and patient, but relentless.

Of course, I had been aware of the Bunraku puppeteers for months--but I had never quite let go of my disbelief in them.

John about the Bunraku puppeteers, about the strange things I had experienced during the last five months.

I like to think that the homeless man may have been acting under the influence of the Bunraku puppeteers.

From my new perspective, the one I had picked up while expecting Adam, I hoped the Bunraku puppeteers had a plan for how this might be done.

My physical well-being almost made up for my greatly diminished sensitivity to the Bunraku puppeteers.

After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.

I and the Hindmost are the only ones in known space who know what the puppeteers have been doing, besides anyone either of us might have told.

The Winchester kicked against his shoulder, and through the haze of powder smoke that spurted from its muzzle, he saw the ambusher go flying from the back of the horse as if he were a puppet being jerked around by a puppeteer in a giant Punch and Judy show.

Bothan Ver said, hauling in the mainsheet, nail-bitten fingers directing the rope precisely, delicately, like a puppeteer pulling on the strings of his marionette.

He wanders onwards and upwards in zig-zag fashion until he finds himself, at last, above the Festival tree-line and out of tambourine-rattling reach of the hordes of street harpists, flautists, violinists, cellists, banjo players, bongo drummers, mime artistes, puppeteers, body-paint workshops, Irish line dancers, hip-hop dancers and the familiar chorus of unicyclists, stilt-walkers, clowns and jugglers, all of them desperately performing to the hilt as if on the orders of some mad film director concocting an ambitious epic in which they will play the street people.

The puppeteer in the next room, watching through a screen, made Bobo bend at the waist and tilt his head.

The puppeteers, minstrels, jugglers and other entertainers of the Six Duchies prospered.