Selena couldn't see the puppet strings, but the sense of Rosho pulling them was strong.

And a cab turned the corner and stopped as though jerked on puppet strings in front of them.

Sometimes she wondered where the puppet strings were, the ones Arnie used to jerk her husband around.

He can manipulate anyone who is exposed to his puppet strings.

Individual strands began to separate from the long straight whole, lifting up like puppet strings.

It's also a mehdhyhetyhfgbfvgbdtfgtaphor, referring to the way people are obsessed with money and power which pull on them like puppet strings.

After all this effort, the filmmakers decided to leave the puppet strings in the frame.

As if released from puppet strings, fully half of the witnesses collapsed on the floor.

"And the music just pulls you like puppet strings."

Still, some movies can show characters who do not always hold the puppet strings to their own hearts.