Sentence examples for at first playing from inspiring English sources

Danny has good luck — at first — playing slots.

DeFranco became a professional musician at age 16, at first playing in swing bands, including those fronted by Tommy Dorsey (1944 45, 1947 48).

Mr. Atari, a burly, balding man, worked as an electrician to earn money, at first playing mostly at weddings, a major source of earnings for many Arabic classical musicians in the Palestinian territories.

On a positive note, Negan and Dwight try to break Daryl by leaving him locked in a dark room (naked at first), playing loud music continuously and feeding him dog food sandwiches.

The government at first played down their importance, saying they were just ordinary criminal gangs peddling drugs.

Walt assumes his protector role gradually, a transformation that at first plays in an often broadly comic key.

The German defense minister at that time, Franz Josef Jung, at first played down the incident and the fact that many civilians had been killed.

Fighting the keyboard, Tom at first plays ineptly or badly (there's plenty of music, performed on the soundtrack by Duris's older sister, Caroline Duris).

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at first played down the complaints, but after videotapes of the attacks emerged, he promised to investigate the behavior of the police.

American military officials had at first played down the episode, which occurred on Wednesday at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, and they did not immediately disclose important details.

The video site at first played the role of Google's profligate son, throwing money at building out bandwidth and storage to handle all the videos but making little money of its own.