Marbles

"Marbles" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Have you lost your marbles, wearing those bell-bottoms?

He must have lost his marbles.

You've lost your marbles.

I'm slowly starting to wonder if I still have all of my marbles.

The children are playing marbles.

Everywhere groups of boys were gathered together. Some played at marbles, at hopscotch, at ball. Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses.

The children made a small hole in the ground for their game of marbles.

When I was a kid, my classmates and I would all take marbles to school to play with. These days, most kids have got smartphones and iPods.

You're losing your marbles.

It sounded like you'd lost your marbles.

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Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.

Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.

Granny's still got all her marbles.

His lack of marbles is becoming ever more apparent.

“A nice imbroglio you've landed me in. Thanks to you ...” “Yes, sir.” “Don't say ‘Yes, sir.’ Thanks to you I have been widely publicized as off my rocker.” “Not widely, sir. Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court.” “You have held me up at the bar of world opinion as a man who has not got all his marbles.” “It was not easy to think of an alternative scheme, sir.”

There are times when you are certain that the person speaking to you has completely misplaced his marbles. As I leaned away in reaction I felt confident […] Ed had lost his.

—Her daddy's crazy. […] Think she's looking for something? —Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles.

Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.

Marbles were among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.

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