Sentence examples for much as playing from inspiring English sources

Do you like watching sport as much as playing it?

Harper perched on a stool and, as ever, insisted on talking as much as playing.

They worked together for six years without so much as playing footsie.

But there is great camaraderie among the bowlers, who seem to love socializing as much as playing.

They do their work and play hard, but it doesn't mean as much as playing for the wild card.

Stosur said she arrived about 9 45 a.m. and did not leave until 8 p.m., without so much as playing a single point.

Melodies were caressed as much as played.

Wang ripped the notes out of the keyboard, as much as played them.

But Columbia's new "Like a Rolling Stone," which went live on Mr. Dylan's website on Tuesday morning, demands not to be played so much as played with.

Beethoven's 20th variation, a melancholy Andante, was utterly lucid yet somehow insubstantial; as in the 24th variation, a Fughetta, there was a sense of excessive deliberation, of the music being displayed as much as played.

But the film's success was also due to Brando, who by all reports invented Terry as much as played him, freely altering words and scenes with an infallible sense of what the gentle, tortured boy would do.