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Example sentences for: plaything

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But the transformation of Avis into a plaything for theory-spouting speculators didn't really happen until the 1980s.
What more natural than that the White perception of a bird destined to become a plaything of the western world--as evidenced by another of its names, the lovebird --should become paramount.
Of unknown origin, doxy is variously the low term for sweetheart or mistress, female tramp or beggar, plaything or paramour [toy boy?], even a baby.
Samuel Johnson possibly had something similar in mind for his Dictionary (1755), when he classified peat , a darling, a little fondling, a dear plaything.