Example Sentences

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Toyed with opponents, including Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena, until losing to Oilers on Thursday night.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

Toyed with, condescended to, and sneered at by their entitled students, a handful of teachers band together to get their power back, reviving a defunct nom de gossip.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2021

Toyed with Sonic Youth, with rap, then heard Monk's Round Midnight from her brother's bedroom and demanded to learn everything about jazz.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2012

The moonlight, amorous of your golden hair, Toyed with it softly, as a woman might With some bright treasure, delicate and rare.

From The Inn of Dreams by Custance, Olive

For pleasantly a song she'd croon, And feign the world a kindly place; And tender was the haunting tune To match her haunting grace; And tenderly the witching moon Toyed with her feeling face ...

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan