Sentence examples for a time when playing from inspiring English sources

A time when playing at home was not a disadvantage for the home team.

Blame the source material, which is from a time when playing jacks was considered high entertainment.

THERE was a time when playing classical piano in Togo might have seemed less odd.

There was a time when playing host to the G8 (and, formerly, the G7) summit was a matter of local pride.

There was a time when playing host to the Spanish on a quick indoor court would have been enough to destabilize them.

There was a time when playing on the same team with an All-Star big man mattered greatly to Jason Kidd.

Several Broadway plays are performing powerfully at the box office as summer begins, a time when plays usually fade fast while increasingly tourist-heavy audiences opt for musicals.

Top Girls, enthused Michael Billington in these pages - at a time when plays by women were still a rarity - "is the best British play ever from a woman dramatist".

At a time when play was generally dismissed as an empty waste of time, he urged his readers to love childhood and encourage its sports, pleasures, and "amiable instincts": "Is it nothing to be happy?

The play was an outgrowth of the feeling in the country for Adlai Stevenson, at a time when plays talked about issues that have something to do with our lives and society.

These games are flashbacks to a simpler time, when playing with friends online didn't mean risking abuse from angry teenagers on another continent entirely.