Example Sentences

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Those considering renting will toy around with different modes of transport if rental cars become very expensive.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021

Both latte and poke will toy with your expectations, generating a response somewhere between amused and confused.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2019

This event, as the name suggests, will toy with new contest formats devised by Slater and will offer $US10,000 in prize money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let him who will, toy with dubious Bordeaux or Burgundy; to get good of them, soul’s good, you must be on the green side of thirty. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

I will toy with it—but absently and in a distrait manner, as becomes a man of affairs.

From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)