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Plaything meaning
A thing or person intended for playing with. | A person at the mercy of fate.
Example sentences (20)
Barely four years, the armed forces led by General Buhari overthrew Shagari and in a succession of Northern generals between 1983 and 1999, Nigeria became plaything in their hands.
Each block is a Lego, a popular plaything that originated in Denmark in the early 1930s and has since blossomed into a world with dedicated theme parks and movies.
She went on: “We need MPs who are going to be the voice of their areas in Parliament, not treating their MP title as a plaything to do damage to their Tory prime minister.
Socialism has become the plaything of snooty, rich, moral infants, making it a toxic word.
That's right, folks — the 20th century, plaything for warlords since 4000.
We’re dealing with a cursed plaything here, rather than an enchanted toybox.
While buying toys has undergone a tremendous transformation over the past few decades, the nostalgia 30-somethings get from seeing their favorite childhood plaything remains.
Sadly, few follow the premise that a Speaker is expected to be above Party politics, not a plaything of the Party.
A poor girl in desperate need of saving who, unlike Forrest, goes out into the world and ends up as a tossed-around plaything who eventually dies of Aids?
Director Josephine Decker hints at the suggestion that Hyman might actually have selected the young woman to be Jackson’s literary plaything.
Is she better with some so-called collector, or as a child's plaything?
It was a failure because the whole point of the takeover wasn’t to have the GOP as a plaything or a jobs program for right-wingers, but to actually move the country rightward.
The jury is still out on both those questions, but it is apparent that the cryptocurrency is gaining wider acceptance on both fronts, moving from a speculative plaything for millennials to a financial asset of interest to conventional investors.
Then maybe being a child's plaything, a doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, probably wouldn't last long against a giant like Jason.
Shirai fought back as Baszler opened the affair by contorting her like a plaything then stomping on her head.
Since he was introduced, Woody has always been in an existential panic about a plaything's purpose, but Buzz reminds Woody that it's alright let go and chart new waters.
There was never an attempt to truly honour his heritage to this country, but as usual to make a political masquerade of everything through cluelessness, insincerity or as a political plaything.
But as the miniseries unfolds, this “plaything” could also be the means through which Nella becomes more than just a beautiful object herself.
But when the dust had settled after three years and countless toys, his favorite plaything was a huge box.
CIG needs to get some balls and stop this…SMB is now becoming the plaything of those that can afford expensive hotels and not the people who live here.