Sentence examples for figures were played from inspiring English sources

Rhythmic figures were played with extraordinary precision.

Following round four, in which the Ospreys beat Toulouse in Swansea, the figures were played 12, won two, lost 10.

Some performances tally with the audience's probable preconceptions of the figures being played.

Those two important figures are played by Angela Bassett and Derek Luke, while Smalls is impersonated by Jamal Woolard, whose faithful mimicry compensates for some of his limitations as an actor.

In an apparent effort to lower expectations ahead of Copenhagen, billed by Gordon Brown as the world's last chance to prevent "catastrophic" climate change, senior figures are playing down the chances of producing a binding treaty.

While more attention gets paid to the 50% of Lucent's business McGinn figures is playing defense, the other 50% has plenty of newfangled surprises to throw at Cisco.

In it, a rising figure is played by the piano and then repeated by the horns.

Its central figure is played by Jack O'Connell, a terrific actorwith the charisma of a young Albert Finney.

The master-figure was played by John Hawkes, and one of his victims — her identity fraying into the multiple names of the title — by Elizabeth Olsen.

In real life she created a little drama, according to Ms. Salamon, in which one prospective friend/potential father figure was played off another.

(In the original, this second-banana figure was played by Mads Mikkelsen, who was promoted to a leading role in Refn's brilliant Pusher sequel, the middle film in an eventual trilogy).