Sentence examples for like a playing from inspiring English sources

"In Finnish it's 'Pelimannit', which, translated directly, is like a playing man, as in a folk musician.

FOR 13 days starting Oct. 16, 1962, "the world stood like a playing card on edge," as Norman Mailer put it, while President Kennedy and his closest aides faced down the threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Jude, who has "learned to go invisible like a playing card turned sideways", gets her own scenes, but so too do her minions, grouped together under "we", as befits their role in the story.

It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected twist in the game.

There was the sound of camera shutters madly clicking like a playing card in a bicycle spoke, but the zoom lenses captured no hint of emotion in the dark brown eyes of Andre Agassi.

These instincts are deeply rooted: long before it reasons, a baby, like a playing dog or wolf, will cease a form of play that elicits distress in a companion (Changeux 2008, p. 52), a phenomenon known as "violence inhibition".

He was like a cat playing with a mouse".

It's like a cat playing with a little mouse.

He sounded like a child playing catch in a backyard.

"She's just like a child playing.

I'd like to play a detective.