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Example sentences for "toyed"

Lexicographically close words:
toxin; toxine; toxines; toxins; toy; toyes; toying; toyle; toys; toyshop
  1. He had toyed with art for two winters in Paris, so scene by scene he had been able to translate the little drama that had appeared so farcical and Frenchy to his older countryman in exile.

  2. Durkin started, as though the circuit with which his fingers absently toyed had suddenly become a live wire.

  3. He toyed with a little black Vandyke beard, as he shook hands.

  4. Her aristocratic features wore a perturbed expression, as her slender fingers toyed mechanically with the many rings on her left hand; so great a responsibility was her only grandchild.

  5. Now give me some account of your school-work, Monica," she said stiffly, as she toyed with a minute helping of orange jelly.

  6. Little Elsa said that was what it was," muttered Mrs. Beauchamp under her breath, as she toyed nervously with her eye-glasses.

  7. For a minute I toyed with the notion of just disappearing down one of those streets.

  8. They asked my name and business, and I toyed with the notion of giving the name of the man I was inadvertently impersonating.

  9. Here he sat down and she seated herself by his side and toyed with him awhile; after which she rose and saying, "Do not stir till I come back," went away.

  10. Then they sat down again and began to fill and give each other to drink; and they toyed and laughed and recited verses, whilst joy grew on them and each was engrossed with love of the other, glory be to Him, who uniteth hearts!

  11. They drank and toyed with each other, till their cheeks flushed and their eyes sparkled and Ghanim's soul yearned to kiss the girl and lie with her.

  12. A file of papers was under Professor Young's hand and as he spoke he toyed absent-mindedly with one of the long official envelopes.

  13. There was no enmity in the latter's mien, but Dominie Graves knew that when the elderly deacon toyed with the white wart his nerves were vastly disturbed.

  14. Her own toyed nervously with his coat-lapel, twisting and twirling a button as he went on.

  15. He had no intention of buying this object--he had never found clocks anything but a source of annoyance--but he toyed with the suggestion when he saw that it agitated his brother.

  16. With an unerring gift for oral narrative, she toyed with this.

  17. Now, although she sang of love, it was a different love from that which Joseph knew and worshiped; and as she toyed with him his hot blood warred with his priestly devotion until he was racked with the tortures of the pit.

  18. That same intoxicating scent, sweeter than the musk of Hadramaut, enveloped her; her fingers were jeweled with nails which flashed in rivalry with their burden of precious stones as she toyed with the whispering strings.

  19. The host, leaning back in his chair with half-closed eyes, listened carelessly to the hum of conversation while he toyed with a few sugared almonds.

  20. Her cheeks were flushed, and the manner in which she toyed with a riding-whip showed that the discussion had been heated.

  21. The treacherous calm that had smiled upon the commencement of their voyage, at length began to yield to the changeful moods of the stormy equinox, which like a cruel sportsman, toyed with the hopes and fears of its helpless prey.

  22. MA¤rchen seated herself on the grass and let them talk to her, toyed with the fair flower-children and began to sing in unison with the birds.

  23. The Poet, meanwhile, laid himself in the grass and laughed and toyed with the sunbeams.

  24. And those little rosy tipped fingers toyed caressingly with that coveted moustache, and were kissed for it, and went and did it again, and so on; and then tenderly with the long light brown wavy curls.

  25. But Bart toyed with his fork, and sparkled with happy, brilliant sallies.

  26. Fred's pulses jumped a little faster as he toyed with his glass.

  27. As it was, he picked up a pen and toyed idly with it.

  28. Her fingers toyed with the fruit that lay untasted before her, while the difficulty of speech struggled within her.

  29. The breeze might have toyed with that mist of golden hair, and the great dark eyes--softly luminous--had the expectancy of a gazelle awaiting the joy of the daydawn.

  30. Taras toyed with his teaspoon, turning it between his fingers and looking at them askance.

  31. When she had toyed lazily for a moment with the ivy, she dropped her arm listlessly down upon the bed.

  32. She raised her arm above' her head and toyed with a leaf of the ivy which hung in graceful festoons about the head-board.

  33. John Blunt leant back in his comfortable chair and toyed with the key of the safe, while he tried to realise his new position.

  34. It was a young gentleman of fashion who lounged in his chair and toyed with a priceless straight-cut.

  35. Intoxicated with ambition, Charles toyed with the hopes thus cleverly presented to him in the guise of confidences poured from heart to heart.

  36. She toyed for a moment or two with the food, making pretence to eat.

  37. For a space Milbanke toyed with his breakfast, then he spoke again.

  38. M'Iver lifted a tress of the sleeping child's hair and toyed with it between his fingers.

  39. John Splendid toyed with the switch in his hand in seeming abstraction, and yet as who was pondering on how to put an unwelcome message in plausible language.

  40. She was the only one who received me coldly, seemed indeed impatient to be off, leaving the conversation to her friends while she toyed with a few late flowers on the bushes beside her.

  41. I took an ivy leaf between my fingers and toyed nervously with it I waited for a confirmation of my worst fears, that my step-mother had followed me and heard me sigh, but there was no one.

  42. I had toyed with my own conjectures and speculations all through the gay season.

  43. And whilst she had toyed with their subtleties, this child had had the courage to cut the knot and pass away for ever to the eternal night of nothingness!

  44. She felt for him all the superb disdain that Cleopatra might have felt had she known that Anthony toyed with a slave from the market-place, and dared not plead guilty to his paltry sin.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toyed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.