Sentence examples for play ceases from inspiring English sources

Play ceases when only one player has any cards left.

Play ceases the moment someone goes out by playing the last card from his hand, whether as part of a new meld, laid off to the table, or as a discard.

Not only this, but that non-playing income has the ability to continue long after the playing income ceases".

If as a player you do not improve personally, the part you want to play will cease to exist.

The customer wonders aloud if waiting till later in the summer, when playing engagements cease, would hurt the cello.

With that in mind, he composed and played without cease for 60 years, first in Birmingham, then in Chicago and New York, and finally in Philadelphia, where he lived until just before his death in 1993.

The way he played never ceased to fascinate me.

Look at a play that never ceases to be done.

Yet Rangers must play on or cease to exist.

If you didn't happen to know that "play Nintendo with Cease-a-Leo" was a nod to a Notorious B.I.G. song, well, you might not fit in.

But despite the meticulous accuracy of the characters' voices "How the World Began" is the kind of play that would cease to exist if one of them — in this case the hypersensitive Susan — behaved as she reasonably would in these circumstances.