plaything

Example Sentences

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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."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

She further alleged the brothers “treat the team as their own plaything to be passed back and forth on a whim.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025

Here at the Walker Art Center, a weighty and ambitious exhibition reorients American audiences toward a generation of artists, writers and musicians for whom free expression was no plaything and no luxury.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Needless to say, this is merely a formality, to secure your Mother in the event of that circumstance of which man is ever the plaything and sport.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner