toy with

Example Sentences

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At her age, I was learning how to count coins and save for a toy with literal dollar bills.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025

“I’m always trying to toy with that idea of her brain works too fast for her mouth,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

Think of the toddler's classic hammer-and-bench toy, with square, circular, triangular and star-shaped wooden pegs that can each only fit in the correspondingly shaped hole in the bench.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

He was criticised for the way he tried to toy with Sri Lanka's bowlers in the third Test, some suggesting it was a sign of complacency.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024

He’d toy with her as she’d toyed with him.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo