Sentence examples for game for keeps from inspiring English sources

/ In the haze of afternoon, / while the air flowed saffron, / I played my game for keeps — / for love, for poetry, / and for eternal life".

He concludes, "If this problem isn't fixed fast, the United States will lose the next worldwide, economic, jobs-based war because its players can't read, write or think as well as their competitors in a game for keeps".

They play the game for keeps here, and they don't forget; in casual conversation six years after he lost his seat, former Senator Jim Sasser bitterly condemned the Republican politicians who had denied him a fourth term as "reactionary know-nothings".

It is a game played for keeps.

* "This game is for keeps"; "[Y]ou can shoot me in the head... but there will be 10 others that line up".

De Koven affectionately and appreciatively hailed by Eric Zimmerman as "our shaman of play"—explores the experience of a well-played game, how we share it, and how we can experience it again; issues of cheating, fairness, keeping score, changing old games (why not change the rules in pursuit of new ways to play?), and making up new games; playing for keeps; and winning.

The other contender, Tom Heathcote, so highly thought of by Andy Robinson, Johnson's predecessor, cannot get a game for Bath – kept out of the side by George Ford, one of England's brightest talents.

Former England keeper Hart, who has been on loan at Torino and West Ham and never played a Premier League game for Guardiola, kept a clean sheet in his 45 minutes on the field after Mario Gotze beat Claudio Bravo with his first-half penalty.

The damage would have been even more considerable if Suárez had not struck the post with a golden chance to add to the scoring and, by the end, it had turned into a game of keep-ball for the team from Catalonia.

Posada motioned several times during the game for Wang to keep the ball down, but he could not fix his mechanics.

"Come Fly With Me" is a mockumentary centered on the odd daily life at a large British airport, particularly at FlyLo, where the customs inspectors log drug contraband by sampling it, and the immigration officer has developed a board game for children called Keep 'Em Out.