toy
noun
an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
toylike
-
a word derived from
toy.
Example Sentences
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The tech giant’s first completely AI-generated spot depicts a toylike plush turkey using AI Mode in Google Search to escape the farm to a destination that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The 7-foot lander is carrying a mini lunar rover for the United Arab Emirates and a toylike robot from Japan designed to roll around in the moon dust.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
The toylike quality of the New York artist’s artwork refers to the things children use to pass the time while hospitalized, and the machine-cut forms contrast the messiness of the human body under biological assault.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2018
Some are wonderful, but in keeping with Ms. Kusama’s habit of accumulation, they are hung cheek by jowl and guarded by a line of infantile, toylike sculptures, which makes it hard to tell.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017
Presumably countless thousands of people rolled the toylike figurines back and forth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
