Sentence examples for toy named from inspiring English sources

Have you ever met other people who had a toy named after them?

The drummer was soon ditched for a more glamorously conceived "space toy" named Lunar Larry, later renamed Buzz Lightyear in honour of famed astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.

Moreover, he made no effort at that time, nor indeed at any time thereafter, to ascertain whether the man at the door was the 'Blackie Toy' named by Hom Way.

With considerably less publicity, a small cuddly toy named Babbage fell from a height slightly above the Austrian's achievement after ascending to the stratosphere in a hydrogen-filled balloon.

A plush toy named StingRay, a pessimistic know-it-all, predicts, "The Girl doesn't love us and she's trying to get rid of us!" But their fears melt away when they end up at the Little Girl's school, where she proudly displays her "best friends in the world" at show and tell.

The toy, named Charlie Bear, was discovered after fans departed the Electric Fields festival in Dumfries and Galloway at the weekend.

With the help of "mommy bloggers" and a tepid economy, Mr. Nichols turned the squishy toys, named Squinkies, into a fad.

Since then, he's taken thousands of snapshots of his famous friends and acquaintances posing with the toys, named Chan La and Chan Zy, and even flown them around the world to visit his fans.

"I think that Hrunov has a new toy, and that toy is named Roy Jones Jr".

"This is going up against the biggest toy names in the world," he says.

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