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Use "hand-puppet" in a sentence
"Spooky got me a little tarantula hand-puppet as a get-well present."
"The magical Will S. (get it?) is a convenient if sometimes intrusive device: Portrayed by Louis Butelli, Will sits from time to time on the lip of the stage with hand-puppet versions of the royal characters, who soon enough will be enacting the puppet master's whims."
"A straggly, hand-puppet beast – a one-time mighty cucumber-lifter – sits dolefully in a rocking chair in his cosy cardboard box, indulging in a death scene as protracted as a Victorian melodrama."