How to Use plaything in a Sentence

plaything

noun

• The emperor used people as his playthings.
• We mustn't let the environment become the plaything of oil companies.
• VCRs were once the expensive, high-tech playthings of the rich.
• The globe is a plaything, an object that fits neatly in his grasp.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• The five trims offered vary from work truck to rock-crawling plaything.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2023
• Ribbons and bows can look like playthings to cats but can be harmful if swallowed.
  — Lisa Bloch, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
• Most people think of a hamster as something between a pet and a plaything.
  — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• The squawking plaything can test even Bluey’s patience.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2026
• Open storage below the bench seat offers a spot to store board games and other small playthings.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
• Cars were thin on the ground, still playthings for the rich and at least a couple of decades away from mass production.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2018
• And Lilli was a plaything for adult men, so her background was not pristine.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
• Twitter does not want to become a plaything of the world’s richest person.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• Bernhard Goetz believed that these four young men were treating him as a plaything.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• Toys and Books Yes, rocks and sticks serve perfectly well as playthings.
  — Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2025
• My little one was creating playthings out of my parents' books and tchotchkes.
  — S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
• Their once pliable playthings are now embalmed, lifeless.
  — Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
• Yet from where the young Wiola sits, the shawl has the allure of a plaything, a prop for make believe.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• And that could determine whether this is a truck for regular people or a plaything for the rich.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
• The girl holds it dearly and turns it into a plaything that is also a reminder of her mother, who has gone to work.
  — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• If your dog always drags one toy out into the living room and ignores the rest, that’s their favorite plaything.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2019
• Matt Townsend looked into an 58-year-old toy that’s become much, much more than a mere plaything.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
• That’s how the elites in Industry, like the ones in the real world, can treat people like playthings.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
• Andy, the kid who owned the franchise’s familiar ensemble of toys, grew up and out of his once-beloved playthings.
  — Allegra Frank, Vox, 27 June 2019
• There's nothing cuter than watching your precious kitty roll around on the floor, wrestling with their favorite plaything.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
• Morgan is keen to explain how the CX-T isn’t just a plaything made for the sake of it.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• But when playthings come in every size and shape, storage bins have a way of multiplying just as quickly.
  — Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 10 June 2026
• In effect, this process made body parts from the working classes into a plaything of the upper classes.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• The hapless puppet, Teddy, becomes a plaything in their clever hands.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Starting at just under $2 million, this is a workhorse or plaything for the upper crust.
  — Alex Fitzpatrick, Fortune, 23 June 2017
• Legend has it that the alligators started out as the tiny, cute playthings of children.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023