diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_groundtruthcomparison.py b/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_groundtruthcomparison.py
index 931c989cef..75bbfb5400 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_groundtruthcomparison.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_groundtruthcomparison.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 import pandas as pd
 
-from spikeinterface.extractors import NumpySorting, toy_example
+from spikeinterface.extractors import NumpySorting
 from spikeinterface.comparison import compare_sorter_to_ground_truth
 
 
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_multisortingcomparison.py b/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_multisortingcomparison.py
index 7e4c9ac77b..f39b8cd890 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_multisortingcomparison.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_multisortingcomparison.py
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 import pytest
 import numpy as np
 
-from spikeinterface.extractors import NumpySorting, toy_example
+from spikeinterface.core import generate_sorting
+from spikeinterface.extractors import NumpySorting
 from spikeinterface.comparison import compare_multiple_sorters, MultiSortingComparison
 
 if hasattr(pytest, "global_test_folder"):
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ def test_compare_multiple_sorters():
 
 def test_compare_multi_segment():
     num_segments = 3
-    _, sort = toy_example(num_segments=num_segments)
+    sort = generate_sorting(durations=[10] * num_segments)
 
     cmp_multi = compare_multiple_sorters([sort, sort, sort])
 
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_symmetricsortingcomparison.py b/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_symmetricsortingcomparison.py
index abc1902e22..e505ced45e 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_symmetricsortingcomparison.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/comparison/tests/test_symmetricsortingcomparison.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 
-from spikeinterface.extractors import NumpySorting, toy_example
+from spikeinterface.core import generate_sorting
+from spikeinterface.extractors import NumpySorting
 from spikeinterface.comparison import compare_two_sorters
 
 
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ def test_compare_two_sorters():
 
 
 def test_compare_multi_segment():
-    _, sort = toy_example(num_segments=2)
+    sort = generate_sorting(durations=[10, 10])
 
     cmp_multi = compare_two_sorters(sort, sort)
 
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/qualitymetrics/tests/test_pca_metrics.py b/src/spikeinterface/qualitymetrics/tests/test_pca_metrics.py
index 916e9cefc2..e5196708e0 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/qualitymetrics/tests/test_pca_metrics.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/qualitymetrics/tests/test_pca_metrics.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
     create_sorting_analyzer,
 )
 
-# from spikeinterface.extractors.toy_example import toy_example
 from spikeinterface.qualitymetrics.utils import create_ground_truth_pc_distributions
 
 from spikeinterface.qualitymetrics import (