TOY in a Sentence

Learn TOY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
86 example sentences for TOY, such as:
1. This toy is made to pull apart.
2. The toy dog is as large as life.
3. His favorite toy is a rubber ball.
4. His latest toy is a personal computer.
5. The baby kept grabbing away at the toy.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TOY
toy
 v.  manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
 n.  any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  They had something of the sort of pleasure in us, I suppose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
2  It was, that Dora seemed by one consent to be regarded like a pretty toy or plaything.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
3  Of Dora's being ready, and of Miss Lavinia's hovering about her, loth to lose the pretty toy that has given her so much pleasant occupation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
4  The victim, from my cradle, of pecuniary liabilities to which I have been unable to respond, I have ever been the sport and toy of debasing circumstances.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
5  She went to a toy shop, bought toys and thought over a plan of action.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 29
6  She had not time to undo, and so carried back with her, the parcel of toys she had chosen the day before in a toy shop with such love and sorrow.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 30
7  He was in the position of a man seeking food in toy shops and tool shops.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 8
8  But now she knew her feelings of that long-past night were those of a spoiled child thwarted of a toy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  When he was sitting, or standing still, he swayed back and forth incessantly, like a rocking toy.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
10  He was like a babe which, having wept its fill, raises its eyes and fixes upon a distant toy.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
11  He rose with a jerk, like a toy suddenly pulled straight by a string.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
12  It was the toy which he had promised to bring home.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
13  They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  Somehow her exquisite shape reminded him of an ivory toy, in such fair, white, transparent relief did it stand out against the dull blur of the surrounding throng.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
15  Moreover her father, though excessively fond of her, treated her always as a toy; with the result that, as she grew to years of discretion, she became wholly wayward and spoilt.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  She gave beer to the man and a toy to the baby, respectively.
2  The baby kept grabbing away at the toy.
3  His favorite toy is a rubber ball.
4  I don't think this is the box that this toy came in,it won't fit in.
5  His latest toy is a personal computer.
6  This toy machine gun dismantles easily.
7  Desktop publishing is probably the best executive toy ever invented.
8  I count religion but a children toy, and hold there is no sin but igno-rance.
9  The toy dog is as large as life.
10  I think we have found a niche in the toy market.
11  The tail won't come off the toy plane; it is fixed on with nails.
12  This toy is made to pull apart.
13  The toy section of the store is a honeypot for children.
14  This is just a toy gun: it doesn't shoot.
15  The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.