How to Use sock puppet in a Sentence

sock puppet

noun
  • Drew, kind of our generic sock puppet, gets a lot of race questions, oddly.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Remember when the alien sock puppet bursts its head out of John Hurt’s chest?
    — Kenneth R. Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018
  • The one with the parents who ponied up the big bucks to bring you to a show featuring flashlights and sock puppets?
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • One had a peacock sock puppet during the Oklahoma game last month.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Use them for dusting, slipping over the head of a Swiffer to mop up a spill, or for making a sock puppet.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Expect sock puppets, instruments made from toilet paper tubes, and plenty of dancing.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • There, the performer shares videos with Lamb Chop, the sock puppet who entertained generations of kids.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The guide instructs them to each create numerous online personas, sometimes called sock puppets, that look and sound like real people.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The dot-com bubble enveloped hundreds of startups that had people bidding for groceries and buying dog food from a sock puppet, few of whom made profits.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • McLaughlin's motives for creating the sock puppet account are also puzzling to many.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Whether sock puppet accounts get taken down will depend on each platform’s individual terms of use, Lampe said.
    — Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Daniel, who’s playing teenage Jason and his satanic sock puppet Tyrone, has been a longtime puppeteer.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The group watches as a sock puppet opens up a lemonade stand for business and frolics around a lemon farm before Tomlinson dives into a swimming pool.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Cryptocurrency’s biggest boosters would do well to remember tech’s most infamous sock puppet.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The combination of a partial name with a set of random numbers can be a giveaway for what security experts call a low-budget sock puppet account.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 July 2024
  • One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Sock Puppets Kids of all ages can enjoy making their own sock puppet creation using old socks and a few simply crafting accessories like googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and glue.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
  • Sock Puppets Kids of all ages can enjoy making their own sock puppet creation using old socks and a few simply crafting accessories like googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and glue.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Kim, 69, anticipated this by preparing an original song before coming on the show, while Jack did a sock puppet reenactment of life in the mansion.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
  • To that end, one of Art and Culture Center’s galleries will be morphed into an arts-and-crafts room throughout the summer, where patrons can build their own sock puppets with loose fabrics and beads.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2019
  • This has partially been pursued by hacking opposition figures directly but also through sock puppet accounts, which pit one faction of the opposition against another.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The scale of the operation piqued his interest, so Oak set up a few sock puppet Facebook accounts and began joining groups offering free Amazon products for review.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Also at both those locations will be Lamb Chop, perhaps the most memorable — and feistiest — sock puppet of all time, who appeared on children’s television for 40 years with her ventriloquist co-star, Shari Lewis.
    — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Occasionally, however, sloppiness—failing to delete old tweets or accidentally posting pro-regime messages on opposition sock puppet accounts—have revealed their likely affiliation with IRI intelligence.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023

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