plaything - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • become: Is the Internet itself set to become the plaything of hidden agencies?
  • make: There was little money for toys but examples remain of home made playthings, some of which can be seen on display.
  • have: Mr. L. asks him if he has no playthings, or if he would like some?
  • remain: Without the fulfillment of this task the spread of radio will remain a plaything for the privileged circles of the townspeople.

Adjective modifier

  • intriguing: Busy babies will enjoy reaching for the intriguing playthings hanging from the three-dimensional Whoozit® Gym to Go.
  • mere: These attributes make a bike that's more than a mere plaything.
  • high: The truck is does he wash dishes box and reunions the the highest playthings the standard certainty.
  • sexual: She was taken to a military camp in Ituri where soldiers held her captive as a sexual plaything for seven months.
  • personal: First, a demented old dollmaker discovers a way to miniaturize humans with a special machine, then keeps them as his personal playthings.
  • new: Will the girls survive their impending ordeal or will the twisted family use their new playthings until they can scream no more?

Noun used with modifier

  • silk: Rosie Hippo's Toys - Natural wooden toys, cooperative games, silk playthings, Waldorf dolls, books and.. .

Possessives

  • child: Mrs Bryant's Pleasure - 1860 This house is a good example of a dolls ' house which was not a child's plaything.
  • man: It is not a sport - not a sport that viewers can play anyway - but an advertising opportunity or rich man's plaything.

Preposition: of

  • power: But in other cases, the once independent national movements have become mere playthings of imperialist powers.

Preposition: for

  • child: They have brought the whole coach full of playthings for the children.

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