plaything

Example Sentences

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Autos were no longer a “devilish plaything of the gilded class,” Mr. Moskowitz tells us.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Famously, he set a Barbie doll on fire to protest Greta Gerwig’s movie portraying the doll as a woman with agency, rather than a passive plaything.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

"Wombats are not a photo prop or plaything," said Suzanne Milthorpe, Head of Campaigns at World Animal Protection Australia, in a statement online.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

But where “M3GAN” felt alive to the culty potential of a malevolent plaything, “Imaginary” skips the directive to entertain, coming off as stiff, pedestrian and dreary as a March space-filler can get.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

And Eril-Fane, savior of Weep, three years’ plaything of the goddess of despair?

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor