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Example sentences for: toying

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The Washington Post reports that Pentagon strategists, lawyers, and ethicists have been toying with the question of how a military invasion of a hostile nation's information systems might play out against the international "rules of war."
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.
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.
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.