Sentence examples for compared playing from inspiring English sources

Billie Whitelaw, McLynn observes, compared playing Winnie to "falling into a black hole backwards".

He compared playing Mr. Hurel's piece to "walking on a tightrope".

Elvin Jones, a jazz percussionist, compared playing with Percussions de Guinée, a nine-man ensemble, to performing with a percussive orchestra.

In 1993, guard Ron Harper, dismayed at having his one-year option picked up by the Clippers, compared playing for them to being in prison.

Although Williams had compared playing on the blue clay to ice-skating — and ended one of her points against Azarenka on her backside after slipping — she simply overpowered Azarenka throughout the match.

John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, the tennis rivals to whom Nadal and Federer are most often compared, played each other in just four major finals.

The questions were asked of Matsui: Could you compare playing in New York to playing in Colorado?

Six years ago, OMGPOP was an online dating site called iminlikewithyou.com, and Dan Porter, the company's C.E.O., compares playing Draw Something to going on a date.

AURA Nick Faldo has won three Masters titles, the last in 1996, and compares playing in it to stepping inside a masterpiece.

She compares playing regularly to exercise: "You know, if you run every day for a month, after a while you're going to feel really good," she says.

The medium can be so engaging, so addictive — Bissell compares playing games to his time using cocaine — that many game makers get away with fiction that makes Stephenie Meyer "look like Ibsen".