marbles
Example Sentences
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results, England have collectively lost their marbles and their wickets.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
The simulations track gas behavior at the microscopic level as particles move, collide, and exchange energy, much like marbles striking one another.
From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025
The book was clearly fiction — featuring characters such as an absurdly monastic Bolivian radio-novela writer who loses his marbles and begins to confuse his characters and his plots.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
There are levels to the game, and on some levels, you don’t see the colors of the marbles that are farther down in the test tube until they are accessible.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024
His eyes were liquid black marbles, and his voice was a rumble from beneath the world.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
