marbles
Britishnoun
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(functioning as singular) a game in which marbles are rolled at one another, similar to bowls
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informal (functioning as plural) wits
to lose one's marbles
Example Sentences
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The simulations track gas behavior at the microscopic level as particles move, collide, and exchange energy, much like marbles striking one another.
From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025
The book was clearly fiction — featuring characters such as an absurdly monastic Bolivian radio-novela writer who loses his marbles and begins to confuse his characters and his plots.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
There are levels to the game, and on some levels, you don’t see the colors of the marbles that are farther down in the test tube until they are accessible.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024
Keeping track was like “chasing marbles down the stairs” the court was told.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024
They carried blue marbles, rattles in an old tin can.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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