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Example sentences for: play

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Yet despite the hearer's conventional groan and the perpetrator's equally conventional apology, everyone knows that verbal play gives a great deal of pleasure, justifying the great deal of ingenuity that goes into producing it.
But in fact, I think the flag answer was the reflection of a different and less laudable tendency on McCain's part: his instinct to play up to the press.
Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
Students find quiet corners to read, relax, or play tennis, and children sail their boats on the octagonal pond or ride a merry-go-round designed by none other than Charles Garnier, architect of the Opéra (see page 45).
Book publishers have the lowest editorial standards in journalism, with the possible exception of the Drudge Report and Salon (which after putting the rumor into play in August and hyping the charges in Hatfield's book , is now reporting on the scandal as a disinterested third-party observer).