Sentence examples for discarded toy from inspiring English sources

As the tuner extracts discarded toy soldiers stuck between the strings, it is clear that the instrument, like its owner, is probably beyond repair.

Like children suddenly squabbling over the old discarded toy in the corner, nations cannot resist, it seems, fighting over small islands that nobody would want if it were not for the principle of the thing.

"Little Wars" was published in 1913, after Wells — inspired by a child's discarded toy soldiers and breech-loading cannon — created a set of rules that the "recumbent strategist" could use to wage war across parlor floors or neatly manicured lawns and gardens.

Remember the wretched sweet-eating infant in Roald Dahl's Matilda, launched out of the classroom window by Miss Trunchbull, or Zagazoo's parents, joyfully tossing their baby to one another as though he were a beachball, or Clown, the discarded toy, hurled into the air with such vigour that he lands in the bedroom of a third-floor flat?

Using parts purchased from Sparkfun including a previously discarded toy car, trackball, an Arduino kit, and an H-Bridge, a developer hacked together a fun little car.

(Children are attracted to toys and are likely to go under and around cars in order to grab up a discarded toy.

They are scattered on a wasteland like discarded toys.

His house there is empty and strewn with discarded toys and two lawn mowers.

Then there is Megan Marlatt, who paints broken and discarded toys piled up as if on a giant rubbish heap.

In fact, he kept his wine in the undercroft, one of the castle outbuildings, where it lay in wooden cases under old tarpaulins, discarded toys and lawnmower parts.

We need to remember the various discarded toys of science - the humours, the four elements, phlogiston, the ether and, more recently, protoplasm.