Sentence examples for be played by either from inspiring English sources

Hedwig can be played by either a woman or a man, the backing singer by a woman in drag.

Mirren is reliably stern and it's refreshing to see her in a role such as this, playing a character who, in a more Hollywoodised version, would undoubtedly be played by either a younger woman or a man.

This version of the blicket game, which Gopnik developed in collaboration with Berkeley colleagues Christopher Lucas and Tom Griffiths, can be played by either of two rules, called "and" and "or".

In the note, the criminals expressed disappointment with M-G-M's lacklustre spring at the box office, and pitched a romantic comedy centering on the life of a twenty-something travel agent, to be played by either Reese Witherspoon or Jennifer Lopez.

After the ball is hit, it is live, meaning that if it ricochets off the goalie or post, it can be played by either team.

Most of the incidental music melody is played by either clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, or strings, often as wildly varying renditions of the usual central theme.

Although it was proposed that the Sonogashira and Suzuki coupling could be catalysed by gold, it seems now clear that at least in some cases the catalytic role is played by either small amounts of palladium contaminants or by gold nanoparticles, which probably mediate these couplings by mechanisms very different from those occurring under homogeneous conditions.

Badminton, like tennis, is a racket sport that is played by either two players or two teams of two players each.

The second stage (called also application stage) contains a simple, with progressive difficulty game/quiz (see Fig. 2); the simple quiz game can be played by two players either as a team ("team mode") or against each other ("versus mode").

There are three versions of the game (four-wall, three-wall, and one-wall), and the game can either be played by two players, three players, or four players.

The title of Reich's 1999 piece is self-explanatory - it is scored for three string quartets, which may either be played by 12 instrumentalists or, as here, by a live quartet with the other two groups on tape.