How to Use plaything in a Sentence

plaything

noun

• The emperor used people as his playthings.
• We mustn't let the environment become the plaything of oil companies.
• VCRs were once the expensive, high-tech playthings of the rich.
• Morgan is keen to explain how the CX-T isn’t just a plaything made for the sake of it.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• In a cabinet card from the 1890s, a young girl holds a plaything in one hand and a doll in the other.
  — Nancy West, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
• Yet from where the young Wiola sits, the shawl has the allure of a plaything, a prop for make believe.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• The globe is a plaything, an object that fits neatly in his grasp.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• But most stuffed playthings are too inert to deliver the thrill of the hunt.
  — Joshua Fruhlinger, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Sports teams are supposed to be rich folks’ playthings.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• The five trims offered vary from work truck to rock-crawling plaything.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2023
• One saving grace: There's a hatch between the rear seats, handy for playthings such as skis.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 26 May 2017
• Cars were thin on the ground, still playthings for the rich and at least a couple of decades away from mass production.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2018
• Visually, you still get shrunk-down-to-size-of-playthings kicks.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 June 2019
• Do sports cars like the GT500 become strictly track time playthings?
  — Larry Printz, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Cars for all At the beginning of the 20th century cars were a plaything of the rich, out of the reach of the average person.
  — Laurie Wright, Quartz, 8 Oct. 2019
• Matt Townsend looked into an 58-year-old toy that’s become much, much more than a mere plaything.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
• And Lilli was a plaything for adult men, so her background was not pristine.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
• Twitter does not want to become a plaything of the world’s richest person.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• The risk is, in the short term, that yet another of soccer’s crown jewels becomes the plaything of a small coterie of clubs.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Most people think of a hamster as something between a pet and a plaything.
  — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• Open storage below the bench seat offers a spot to store board games and other small playthings.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
• Just like that, Woody’s kid — as the beloved playthings in the Toy Story franchise call their owners — may not need him anymore.
  — Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• Andy, the kid who owned the franchise’s familiar ensemble of toys, grew up and out of his once-beloved playthings.
  — Allegra Frank, Vox, 27 June 2019
• The girl holds it dearly and turns it into a plaything that is also a reminder of her mother, who has gone to work.
  — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• And that could determine whether this is a truck for regular people or a plaything for the rich.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
• Football clubs as the playthings of businessmen with money to burn isn't a new thing, but the landscape has changed over the last couple of decades.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• If your dog always drags one toy out into the living room and ignores the rest, that’s their favorite plaything.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2019
• The town of about 4,600 people has been widely mocked as a prince’s plaything and architectural theme park.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• In effect, this process made body parts from the working classes into a plaything of the upper classes.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• The 21st century has been defined by unexpected shocks—major upheavals that have upended the world many of us have known and made our lives feel like the playthings of chaos.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024