marbles
IPA: mˈɑrbʌɫz
noun
- Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
- (figurative, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
- (motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
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Examples of "marbles" in Sentences
- With the marbles was a note scrawled in a boy's hand --
- Next in marbles were the sold colors, opaque or with a swirl through them.
- Another reason for making the marbles is for smarter consumption of sweet.
- A person, once normal, who loses his/her marbles, is properly called demented.
- There was cold night air in the chapel and the marbles were the colour the sea was at night.
- Your two assumptions not overly burdensome and you have your marbles are the heart of the dilemma.
- Losing your mind or losing your faculties or losing your marbles is about age – none of which was said.
- What about 'losing your marbles', is that better?? uhm??? senator, hum????????? it has nothing to do with age, but reasoning.
- The finale was destined to be a Drew/Stacy stunner for all the marbles from the get-go, but there’s a certain order the rest of the field needed to be eliminated in to maintain some level of credibility.
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