Sentence examples for force a play from inspiring English sources

The necessity for "symbolic performance," which is indirectly defended in these early plays by showing a too-realistic opposite, is explained and directly apologized for in Henry V, written about 1599, where a Chorus speaks for the "bending author" and his actors who "force a play" on the "unworthy scaffold," the stage of the Globe's "wooden O".

Monrovia's goalkeeper ran out to Becker, who had his back to the goal, to force a play.

But successive bogeys on the 17th and 18th allowed DiMarco to draw level and force a play-off.

Those hopes ended with a second shot into water on the 72nd hole, at the point where Donald needed an eagle to force a play-off.

When they met in Cairo, Egypt had to win by three goals to overhaul the Fennec Foxes, or by two to force a play-off between the two.

García won the Players Championship at Sawgrass, fancifully known as "the fifth major", holing crucial putts on the back nine to force a play-off that he won.

The 43-year-old bounced back with birdies on the 14th and 16th, but was unable to find the eagle he needed on the 18th to force a play-off.

Having gone almost two years without a major, Nicklaus holds off the challenges of Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf, who both miss putts to force a play-off, for his fifth Green Jacket.

Drawn in a group with Holland (yet to get their act together), Albania and the amateurs of Switzerland, Northern Ireland only needed to win in Albania in their last game to force a play-off with the part-time Swiss.

4 Jerry Barber: 1961 USPGA Championship, 45 Years, 3 months, 6 days Trailing by four shots with three holes to play in the final round, Barber made putts of 20ft on the 16th hole, 40ft on the 17th and 60ft on the 18th to force a play-off from which he would prevail for his only major title.

Effectively needing an eagle to force a play-off and with nothing to lose, Westwood reached the green in two but was aghast to see his ball come to rest on top of a ridge instead of rolling back towards the hole.