Sentence examples for been a puppet from inspiring English sources

The lord on Stela 31 may have been a puppet ruler manipulated by tough merchant-warriors.

* * * Joaquin Balaguer knew he had only been a puppet president while Trujillo had been alive, but things were now different.

To many, it looks very much like recent UK democracy has been a puppet show put on by the Murdochs.

"That's alliteration," he joked, after singing the lines, "I've been a puppet, a pirate, a pauper, a poet, a pawn and a king".

Now we have a 72-year-old manager who has been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn a (would-be) king.

A microphone stretched between them on a long black cord, dangling just above Ms. Fotheringham's twisted form like a snapped string, as if she might have been a puppet who had plunged to her doom.

He was a puppet master.

Szydło is a puppet.

In reality he is a puppet".

"The president is a puppet.

"But Sheik Tantawi is a puppet".