Sentence examples for given to playing from inspiring English sources

The Olympic Stadium in Stratford is another possibility, and thought will be given to playing games in France.

He could go to work flacking for the Yankees pitcher David Wells, who is himself given to playing fast and loose with the facts.

And just as frequently described as a forbidding mother, chilly and withholding and given to playing ostrich whenever it comes to emotions.

In an interview with CBS's Mary Joe Fernandez, tournament director David Brewer said that no serious consideration was given to playing the Djokovic-Ferrer semifinal simultaneously on Louis Armstrong Stadium.

It was an outfit steeped in certain aspects of free jazz and fusion, but also an acoustic quartet given to playing standards, often with a driving sense of swing.

Although Mr. Koizumi's government has made economic reform in Japan its top priority, in East Asia, the new prime minister has quickly come to be seen as a politician given to playing on nationalist sentiments.

Describes her environment, and the "toys" she was given to "play" with.

The infant, swathed in Baby Gap, burbles and grins at grown-ups given to play.

You the player are merely inhabiting the role you have been given to play.

"How much focus and energy are they going to give to playing a game?

Russian commentators, not normally given to understatement, played the whole spy scandal down.