toyshop
IPA: tˈɔɪʃɑp
noun
- A shop that sells toys.
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Examples of "toyshop" in Sentences
- The set dressing for the toyshop included appropriate labels.
- Sport is the toyshop; Bourgeois proffers no hint of a welcome.
- So the toyshop owner tells the girl the story behind the two dolls.
- The Tweenies think he will meet the real Commander Cosmons in the toyshop.
- I can already see myself heading downtown to find a toyshop with a small-scale reproduction of Mr Ford's famous car.
- A spider who takes shelter from a snowstorm in a toyshop finds the merchandise comes to life when the store is closed.
- I thought, cheesingly punning on that old Beach Boys tune and the name of heretofore unknown-to-me adult toyshop I found while Googling The Beach Boys.
- There he discovers a wonky world, with a dachshund and donkey who both talk, and an old puppet-maker in a magical toyshop where nothing is quite what it seems.
- "As it is a very lucrative game, we should expect bad behavior; disloyalty; rampant individual greed; irrational behavior (kids in toyshop style); back-stabbing; bum-fucking, and similar ungentlemanly activities."
- There, behind the backcloth painted with the night sky of Elsinore, we found half a dozen people standing, frozen, in grotesque postures, their arms raised above their heads, like marionettes hanging in a toyshop window.
- These early products were unpopular with everybody from toyshop owners "the same old stuff with a licence on it" to consumers' associations, who called it "ludicrous" that the toys were almost twice as expensive in the UK as they were in the US.
- At the start, Nice describes Wilson's baby as a "post-punk Bauhaus, Manchester crucible, dialectical toyshop" (whatever that is), though there is much more fun in his frequent collisions with clay-footed musicians: "Crispy Ambulance was the worst band name on the label, until he signed Thick Pigeon."
- He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of them he caused a box of bricks to be made by an out-of-work carpenter, not the insufficient supply of the toyshop, you understand, but a really adequate quantity of bricks made out of oak and shaped and smoothed, bricks about five inches by two and a half by one, and half-bricks and quarter-bricks to correspond.