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

But where “M3GAN” felt alive to the culty potential of a malevolent plaything, “Imaginary” skips the directive to entertain, coming off as stiff, pedestrian and dreary as a March space-filler can get.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

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

The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding