marbles
Example Sentences
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She added: "He watches a lot of YouTube videos with marble races where countries are represented by marbles... He just learnt them all from that and a book we've got."
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
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
He hid his marbles and jack-knife and wouldn’t let anyone touch his story books.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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