Sentence examples for play a silly from inspiring English sources

"I'd like to play a silly role, like comedy, like something in Catherine Tate's show".

We didn't want to play a silly academic game," he said.

Being forced to play a silly game on his deathbed, when you could feel his fever in the sheets.

Dr Patricia de Wolfe London The whole journal rating system has just become a function of publishers being able to charge more money for their journals, as academic administrators (more so than researchers) play a silly game about research ratings, rather than concentrate on good research.

Play a silly associative game.

I played a silly joke on Beryl when I was first introduced to her.

The paper had played a silly joke by pretending that it was to continue with the feature.

In Simla he attended an "advanced" Muslim wedding where men prayed at one end of a veranda while a gramophone played a silly English song at the other.

In his period costume and flowing golden wig, Mr. Grammer looks (and emotes) as if he were playing a silly dream sequence from a lost episode of "Frasier".

Mike Epps, once again playing a silly, motor-mouth sidekick, helps hold up the comic end of this awkward contraption, as does Steve Harvey as a drunken radio D.J.

Just before the fade, Gordon gives us a lovely grin which looks like he has probably played a silly school playground prank and the camera operator is about to topple over a crouching special adviser into the dahlias.