How to Use stooge in a Sentence

stooge

noun
  • He's just a stooge for the oil industry.
  • The same could be said of Pence’s tenure as stooge and mouthpiece.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • Her stooge makes easy work of him in the park during a supervised jog.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Amazon is not the only business guilty of playing the stooge, of course.
    — Marco Rubio, National Review, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Posey knew his guy was auditioning to become the fourth stooge.
    — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • Cream pie out of respect to many a great stooge who cruelly had the sweet treat shoved or thrown onto their face.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
  • On occasion, Pitaro has sent a PR stooge to call me names off the record.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Truss turned out to be a stooge for Boris Johnson, Maureen Dowd writes.
    — Ashley Wu, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Cobra installs a stooge as the ruler of Alaska, Gerky Potemkin.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
  • Fitting right in with blind mice, musketeers, stooges, little pigs, & amigos.
    — Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The former businessman certainly cannot be called a stooge for the weed industry.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Who would compromise with a Russian stooge or a secret jihadist, after all?
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 14 June 2017
  • She is routinely denounced as a traitor and a stooge of foreign powers on state-television programs.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Belichick stooge Greg Schiano landed on his feet with a big bag of money at Rutgers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And yet the stooges in movies like Zoolander come in handy as providers of an alternative mother lode of teachable moments.
    — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 1 June 2017
  • His Sheeran’s a lethal stooge, morally dumb with dead blue eyes and willing to perform any act of loyalty or betrayal.
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The owner of an independent candy shop and the corporate stooge who has been sent to shut her down begin an unlikely romance.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Klatt’s heel turn as a network-employee stooge was disappointing, no doubt, but so were some other heel turns that come to mind immediately.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2022
  • Many others denounced him as a stooge of Washington, unduly critical of Russia’s war aims and prospects.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The veteran bass Paul Plishka smoothly dispatched the roles of the stooges Benoit and Alcindoro.
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Back then, Putin cast the mostly urban middle class protesters as Western stooges, part of a spoiled elite at odds with the country’s majority.
    — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Stalking the herd is easier than stalking the old and wary lone bull, which has been expelled from the flock by the young bloods, or stalking an old bull with an askaria young bull that serves as stooge and bodyguard to the oldster.
    — Robert Ruark, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
  • But Sonntag wasn’t interested in being a Communist stooge or enduring a lifetime of drudgery for a meager wage.
    — Longreads, 6 July 2022
  • Or an Antiques Roadshow regular acting as a stooge for a real estate developer.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • The character of Tricia, rather than just being the usual parent/victim/stooge in an attack-of-the-kid-from-hell horror movie, has a devious agenda.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Detractors have accused Mousa of being a stooge candidate, sanctioned by the regime to give the election a veneer of legitimacy.
    — Sheena McKenzie, Ian Lee and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But an environmental disaster and a trio of quirky stooges (voiced by Will Ferrell, Flea, and Andy Samberg) will get in the way.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Superstar LeBron James spoke up and sounded like a mouthpiece stooge for an oppressive regime, losing a huge amount of credibility.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • His only rival for the presidency, Mousa Mostafa Mousa, was accused by Sisi's detractors of being a stooge candidate.
    — Sarah El Sirgany, Salma Abdelaziz and Ian Lee, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018

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