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Example sentences for: toying

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Staring through binoculars, one of the searchers expresses the frustration inherent in any search for a not-so-Holy Grail--whether it's Elvis, a UFO, or the Energizer Bunny: "It's toying with us again."
In such works she seemed to be toying with male expectations of the Asian femme fatale.
Even if the picture had a private meaning for its patron (who had just lost his male lover), it's obvious that Tiepolo enjoyed toying with the tragicomic possibilities of a fatal tennis match.
In his book, Ballard was not only toying with some kind of ultimate transgression; he was also responding to the arguments advanced by pop art.
The baron was also toying with the idea of replacing the gracious red brick houses of the triangular place Dauphine with a neo-Grecian colonnaded square when, thankfully, he was forced out of office for juggling the books.