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Example sentences for: toying

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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.
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.
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.
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."
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."