Sentence examples for making a play of from inspiring English sources

"We didn't want to do anything too 'architecty', making a play of the contrast between new and old," says Ronalds, who has previously worked subtle magic on other East End bastions the Hackney Empire and the Ironmonger Row Baths.

Critics largely blanched, accusing the group of making a play for that most ignoble of goals: prestige.

But a new adorable duo is making a play for cutest friendship of all: Millie Bobby Brown and Maddie Ziegler.

Felton made a play on each of the Knicks' baskets.

To dramatize, to make a play of, this knot of griefs and obsessions was the only way he could find a ceremony adequate to them.

Williams encouraged her to make a play of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), a sensitive portrayal of a lonely adolescent whose attachment to her brother precipitates a crisis at his wedding.

John's father, my grandfather, would make a play of words from our last name, Diederich.

"Tried to make a play out of nothing," Tupa said.

At that time, Sidney Howard made a play out of it, but the play flopped.

"I thought: 'How are you ever going to make a play out of us?

Then make a play out of it by using a fake Jesus.