Play

The children played in the park.

A youngster[…]listed some of the things his pet did not do:[…]go on vacation, play in the same way that he did with his friends, and so on.

2003, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont et al. (eds.), Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth, Cambridge Univ. Press, p.52:

Don't play with your food!

He's just playing with her affections.

Thus Men are apt to play with their Healths and their Lives as they do with their Cloaths: [...]

He plays on three teams.

Who's playing now?

play football, play sports, play games

He plays left back for Mudchester Rovers

We're playing one of the top teams in the next round.

England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.

Look at the score now ... 23 plays 8!

to play safe, to play fair, to play dirty

His mother played false with a smith.

Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom / Well, who am I to keep you down? / It's only right that you should play the way you feel it / But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness

He plays dumb, but actually he's very clever.

Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt.

Playing hard to get is not the same as slamming the door in someone's face.

Now, surveying his final link, he had the nice advantage of being able to play coy with established port cities that desperately wanted his proven railroad.

Instead, they played dumb, remained silent, and did their classwork.

Stop playing the fool.

No part of the brain plays the role of permanent memory.

In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

Who played Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind'?

Mister Friel plays Virgil to the narrator's Dante, finding him an apartment, bringing him to the right parties and offering the last word on gay New York.

I'm not a doctor, but I do play one on TV.

An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.

I'll play the piano and you sing.

Can you play an instrument?

I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.

This piano plays out of tune.

If your guitar plays well on fretted strings but annoys you on the open ones, the nut's probably worn out.

You can play the DVD now.

Don't play your radio so loud!

Play the audio clip to hear how the word is pronounced.

Do you know how to play Für Elise on the piano?

We especially like to play jazz together.

She keeps playing 'Achy Breaky Heart' over and over again on her stereo.

The juke box is playing our favourite song.

The radio was playing in the background.

This DVD is scratched and won't play.

Channel 9 is playing that old comedy series again.

My cassette player won't play this worn-out old tape.

His latest film is playing in the local theatre tomorrow.

Some kind of lounge music was playing in the background.

The band is playing large arenas nationwide.

I got a hold of Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong's agent and I explained to him on the phone that, "I know you're playing London on Wednesday night. Why don't you come and play the Arena in Windsor on Saturday night?"

to play a comedy

The fountain plays.

The leaves played in the wind.

All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.

The torch beam played around the room.

They played the jet of water onto the seat of the fire.

to play cannon upon a fortification

The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets.

The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

The Poet and the Painter Casting shadows on the water As the sun plays on the infantry Returning from the sea.

the waving sedges play with wind

The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play.

That was a great shot he played!

He played the blue ball, but the green would have been a better choice.

When you're in a team, you have to play your part.

to play a trump in a card game, to play tricks, to play a joke

Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies.

The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

The bank robbers have three hostages inside, so we're going to have to play this very carefully.

He made a fortune on Wall Street, playing the markets.

In this business you have to play the percentages.

This policy plays well with younger voters.

How will this play in the swing states?

“I play, comparatively, very little; I don't drink a fifth part so much as half the people I live with; and I reckon myself, upon the whole, a very orderly, sober fellow.”

You played me!

If this our song, you're the composer I'm not a game, but you play me anyway

They don't play with the rules around here.

He grew serious. “Sorry, E.M. Just fucking around.” “Well, I don’t play like that and you know it.”

Her proper face I not descerned in that darkesome shade, But weend it was my loue, with whom he playd.

Cheree, Cheree / Je t'adore, baby / I love you / Oh, come play with me

Children learn through play.

She was fond of all boys' plays, and greatly preferred cricket […] to dolls […]

1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure You know, when I was around 7-11 years old, my favorite play would be "boys." One of us, Bridget, Maryellen, or I, would say "Let's play boys." We all had boy names, set up the pretend surroundings, and acted like boys.

This kind of play helps the young lion cubs develop their hunting skills.

Play was very slow in the first half.

After the rain break, play resumed at 3 o'clock.

The game was abandoned after 20 minutes' play

In potting the yellow ball, he's knocked the green into play.

When a chess piece is captured, it is removed from play.

That option has been removed from play.

His play has improved a lot this season.

That was a great play by the Mudchester Rovers forward.

AWARD is better than either WARED or WADER. However, there's an even better play! If you have looked at the two-to-make-three letter list, you may have noticed the word AWA.

This book contains all of Shakespeare's plays.

We saw a two-act play in the theatre.

My kids are acting in the school play this Christmas.

ABC Widgets makes a play in the bicycle market with its bid to take over Acme Sprockets.

Turpin signals the Metric Party's long-term play for housing reform

the play of light and shadow across the boy's face

the sum of mental and physical phenomena known by the conventional name “person” or “individual” is not at all the mere play of blind chance.

give play to your imagination

No wonder the fanbelt is slipping: there’s too much play in it.

Too much play in a steering wheel may be dangerous.

Sexy LF novice seeks seasoned top to spice up my play life. Teach me a lesson I won't forget.

The rarity of male domination in fantasy play is readily explained.

Palm Springs M seeks sane F 4 safe bdsm play

There were none of the usual restrictions on public nudity or sexual interaction in the club environment. Still, the night was young, and as he'd made his way to the bar to order Mistress Ramona a gin and tonic, he'd seen little in the way of play.

This type of play allows some people to relax and enjoy being given pleasure without having to think about giving pleasure back at the same time.

That video of my cat falling off the piano has had ten thousand plays.

The most-streamed artist of the year was British singer Ed Sheeran, who amassed 860 million plays with hits like “I See Fire.”

Their single got a play on the radio.

The song got a lot of play in the clubs.

play on words

The name Wiktionary is a play on the words wiki and dictionary.

handplay, swordplay

Dave and Buster’s (PLAY), the popular restaurant and entertainment chain, is getting into the betting business.