Sentence examples for by playing a variation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wilkens and his wife, Teresa, tried to distract their children from the carnage by playing a variation of musical chairs in which you could move only when there was no gunfire nearby.

In the slapstick category, even the one show that isn't actually set in the 70s – Citizen Khan – is so obviously influenced by comedies of that era that tonight's episode has a guest appearance by Peter Bowles, playing a variation on his toff from To the Manor Born.

On the beach, a thousand footballs danced in the warm evening air as Brazilians young and old honed their skills by playing a dozen variations of the game.

This week, we're playing a variation of that game, under the assumption that man cannot live by discs alone.

Baghramian sculptures play a variation on these man-made limbs.

Aside from the appealing work of a cast led by David Hyde Pierce, playing a more dour variation on the dithery persona he perfected in his years as a star of the sitcom "Frasier," this wan comedy about (yawn) the troubled relationship between a book editor and his daughter has little to recommend it.

Link can slow down time or warp to the next morning or evening by playing two variations of the Song of Time.

Though this is familiar comic turf (the joke has to be on somebody), he has made it a particular specialty by playing variations on the emasculated patsy — the guy with the penis literally stuck in his zipper in "There's Something About Mary" and figuratively caught in other roles — who either triumphs over adversity or violently succumbs to it.

In Japan ramen chefs can become famous by playing variations on the ramen formula, like browning the scallions that garnish the soup.

The results showed that the variation in LOS was largely explained by variation between individual patients with variation between hospitals playing a minor role.

At the age of seven-and-a-half he gave his first public performance, appearing as a violinist and playing an air and variations by Pierre Rode.