Sentence examples for object of fun from inspiring English sources

In the 38 years since the Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik invented his cube, it has alternately been regarded as an object of fun, art, mathematics, nostalgia and frustration.

This was the Ponting of Trent Bridge '05, the grinning Duncan Fletcher's object of fun from the England players' balcony as the skipper left, fuming, run out by the sub Gary Pratt, a specialist fielder he reckoned had been deliberately planted in dubious circumstances.

His chronic shyness with women other than his unmarried sister also made him an object of fun in some quarters.

It's probably because you've watched too much Made In Chelsea and it's left you in an existential flux, both laughing at but knowing yourself to be the object of fun.

She praised Gordon's character, then asked how she herself could remain courageous at her school when she was constantly being made the object of fun for her height and her interest in what her peers perceived as dorky extracurriculars.

Jennings says: "I see no reason why we should not be objects of fun and, on occasion, derision.

Once teachers were turned into objects of fun, it was apparently not hard to devolve them still further — to make them menaces, instead of merely dim bulbs.

(Picture book; ages 4 to 8) There is no finer tradition in /English-language education than transforming the letters of the alphabet into living, breathing objects of fun.

For Howells, Twain's significance was apparently social the humorist, Howells wrote, spoke to and for the common American man and woman; he emancipated and dignified the speech and manners of a class of people largely neglected by writers (except as objects of fun or disapproval) and largely ignored by genteel America.

Members have frequently been objects of fun and even the title of the new drama alludes to an oft-repeated joke: members of the group, according to a remark attributed to Dorothy Parker, "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles".

Balls, building bricks and skipping ropes are among the brightly coloured objects of fun he keeps in a large suitcase.