Sentence examples for on screen play from inspiring English sources

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The Wii has a motion-sensing controller that lets users direct on-screen play by swinging it like a bat or a tennis racket.

John Goodman, who once impersonated Babe Ruth on screen, plays his best friend and boardroom apologist.

The shifting scroll-like play of images is set to sonorous music, primarily by the Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger, who also appears briefly on screen, playing his heart out.

Though the film takes a dim view of his profession, the hospital's superintendent had offered up his facility as its main location, and even agreed to appear on screen, playing a doctor.

The star of "Deathtrap" occupies the stage for far longer than the comparative nanosecond that Ms. Dench did on screen, playing the Queen Elizabeth I that brought her an Oscar.

The blowsy Irish market trader Agnes Brown first appeared on screen, played more or less straight by Anjelica Huston, in 1999's Agnes Browne [sic], the actress's shrug-inducing adaptation of Brendan O'Carroll's novel The Mammy.

Now 35, she was 20 when she first acted on screen, playing a 14-year-old with Aids in Larry Clark's controversial 1995 film Kids – think Skins crossed with Rita, Sue and Bob Too!, but watched through a dirty car window.

Before that, however, he had made his mark on screen, playing the oleaginous Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles, the celebrated BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novels which was broadcast in 1982.

This was the first time Toprak had appeared on screen, playing the restless son of mad uncle Muzza, who once got a taxi all the way to Ankara, then ran off without paying.

Nicholas Hoult has grown up on screen, playing the eponymous boy in 2002's About a Boy, a prototypical angsty teenager on the UK series Skins, a mutant in the X-Men franchise and a zombie in Warm Bodies.

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