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Example sentences for: toying

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In such works she seemed to be toying with male expectations of the Asian femme fatale.
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.
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."
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.
Characters register information with the tiniest of gestures--all Edie Falco has to do is not move her facial muscles when her priest and would-be lover lets something slip that suggests he may be toying with her, and we know that Carmela Soprano just grasped something important.