Sentence examples for a clever play from inspiring English sources

Had declarer made a clever play?

It's a clever play, but it works on the brain more than the heart.

Or had he made a clever play at the third trick by dropping the 10 from 10-x?

Sometimes it's a matter of dreaming up a clever play on words; sometimes it requires finding an ingenious solution to a bizarre context.

That inspiration has been distilled in the movement's main slogan, "Printemps érable," a clever play on words that literally means Maple Spring but sounds like Arab Spring.

But Islam, he has said – in a clever play on the words of the Muslim Brotherhood's famously simple slogan – "is neither the problem nor the solution".

A clever play-maker, Medhurst's speed, footwork and deft passing make her very tough for opposition defences to contain.

Also, Chimerica rendered me a blubbing mess – a very clever play that has stayed with me since, and great news that it's transferring to the West End.

This peculiar name was a supposedly clever play on beton brut, French for raw concrete, which in the hands of an artist-architect like Le Corbusier, and especially under a Mediterranean sun, could be a strikingly beautiful building material.

So I guess, out with "outsourcing," "insourcing" and now we're into "crowd sourcing," which I think is a relatively clever play on social media and collaboration and all of that.

Perhaps 14 Ne2 should have created a winning advantage, too, but it gave Kasimdzhanov a chance for clever play.