Sentence examples for toy cement from inspiring English sources

Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer.

The toy cement mixer is the origin of the religious feeling that has informed most of my adult life.

By David Foster Wallace Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer.

"Though you may test me, my sorrow shall be a grindstone!… Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer.

David Foster Wallace, "All That" (December 14 , 2009: "Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer".

Under various pretexts, they bought me an exceptional number of toys and games in the months following that Christmas, trying to distract me from what they saw as a traumatic obsession with the toy cement mixer and its "magic".

THEY were lined up like toy trucks in a playroom -- cement trucks, flatbed trucks, masonry and construction trucks, tractor-trailers and a truck filled with tree stumps.

Anyone who is toying with moving from "where the cement grows" should read Acres and Pains by the great American humorist S J Perelman, about leaving New York for a farm in Pennsylvania.

It was ("it" meaning the cement mixer) the same overlarge miniature as many other toy vehicles — about the size of a breadbox.

Much that is essential for everyday life is banned: cement is banned, pencils banned, paper banned, toys banned, medicines and food restricted.

As the economy becomes more reliant on domestic demand instead of exports, growth is shifting toward energy-hungry steel and cement production and away from light industries like toys and apparel.