Sentence examples for instead of play from inspiring English sources

Maybe it hurts too much to watch instead of play.

Yes, far too many of us watch instead of play.

("Touch the guitar", my old Spanish teacher's daughter would say, instead of "Play the guitar").

As a child, I wanted to work instead of play sports.

Which is how "Play it again, Sam" entered the language instead of: "Play it, Sam, play 'As Time Goes By'".

The rituals of the teenage years — dates instead of play dates, college tours instead of ice cream stops — may require more privacy and protection, not less.

Ms. Mondragon urged him to throw actual punches, instead of play-fighting, so that she could improve her defensive moves.

Instead of playing a childlike alien, he played adult humans.

And she sometimes thinks too much instead of playing freely.

Pianists rolled chords instead of playing them at one stroke.

Instead of playing ball, she began playing the system.