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plaything

[ US /ˈpɫeɪˌθɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /plˈe‍ɪθɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an artifact designed to be played with

How To Use plaything In A Sentence

  • Then Hay wrestled a nylon bag crammed with playthings from the cargo space behind the third passenger seat.
  • A common plaything for Chinese children, the grasshopper is defamiliarized as ‘a six-legged monster, fresh-grass green, with saw-blade jaws, bulging eyes, and whips for eyebrows’.
  • Nowadays, with cats getting fed so well by their owners, they don't bother about catching mice for food, they use them as playthings, along with birds and other harmless creatures.
  • And like many children's toys today, playthings for pets are becoming more technological and educational.
  • We're not playthings, we're not your little toys you can use to play God!
  • We should be able to build a broad movement which is not the product of a single party, or its plaything.
  • I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticy, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days.
  • So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly. The Ranch at the Wolverine
  • Nobody cares much for that kind of plaything at close range. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
  • She seemed content with her life as a rich man's plaything.
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