Example sentences for: playing

How can you use “playing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Italy , La Stampa of Turin led on Clinton playing "the Yeltsin card," while Corriere della Sera of Milan splashed the news that NATO is ready to block even Russian tankers to enforce its oil embargo against Yugoslavia.

  • Thanks for playing.

  • De Niro and Sandra Bernhard kidnap Jerry Lewis (playing, brilliantly, a famous late-night talk show host), Bernhard steals the movie, and the ending is guaranteed to provoke long, excruciating arguments about the difference between fantasy and reality.

  • Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were "speculators" in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's money: Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.

  • Never having been to either West Lake Hills or Topanga, I can only go on the little Lemann gives us to grasp what makes a place "truly hip," but let me go ahead and see if I don't have the whole picture--uh, upper-class, white, Protestant children with dreadlocks, tattoos, and nascent heroin addictions playing in bad rock bands named after legendary 1970s TV sitcoms?


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