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

Game-makers have previously defended them as being akin to a chocolate egg containing a plastic toy, with children not knowing exactly what they are getting until the egg is bought and opened.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

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

“Let’s not toy with this poor boy more than you already have. We don’t want anything to happen to him.”

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby