Sentence examples for a legitimate play from inspiring English sources

But the N.H.L. did not summon Ovechkin to a hearing, suggesting that Brendan Shanahan and the league's player safety department found that Ovechkin was trying to make a legitimate play – specifically, play the puck with his skate — immediately before the collision, and that Girardi's head was not targeted in the collision itself.

Agnes Nairn, a Bath researcher quoted by The Associated Press, said that, "The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'cool' activity".

"The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'cool' activity in contrast to other forms of play with the doll".

With that kind of resume, it's no wonder that Mah has been seen as a teen to watch for quite some time, but with her latest venture, inDinero, she's finally making a legitimate play for the big leagues.

Well, competition is alive and flourishing on the Great White Way and elsewhere, but turning Times Square and environs into an impossible place to turn around in, to get to, to get out of, is a dilemma for many who want to go to a legitimate play or musical.

Milhous calculates a likely requirement of at least four to six months of planning, contracting, building, and rehearsing, to be compared with the four to six weeks of rehearsal time a new "legitimate" play would get.

"The fact that legitimate sporting goods have 'play value' or that users have 'fun' while using a legitimate sport good is tangential to the well-recognized foundational purposes of these products," wrote Bill Sells, the group's vice president, in a letter to the commission.

For example, if a player lays down a bunt - a legitimate baseball play - in the late innings of a no-hit bid, he's sure to take a baseball to the ribs the next time he comes to the plate against the offended team.

Technical skill depends on knowing the range of legitimate plays: a knight cannot move in a straight line; the ball must be dribbled or passed but cannot be carried.

Realizing children's agency in play is an integral part of legitimating play as an empowering process; play time during the school day marks one of the few spaces where children have more control over what they do and how they do it.

Baseball America called Culver, 17, who has committed to play at the University of Maryland, "the rare Northeast prep product with a legitimate chance to play shortstop in the major leagues".