Sentence examples for play phrase from inspiring English sources

You might want to use use your technology and have them play phrase by phrase rather than the whole song every time they record.

Mr. Moose and Ms. Sirota dived into the music immediately, sight-reading difficult passagework and making quick decisions about how to play phrases.

Ms. Peck has always been a whiz kid, but now she has time, it seems, to play, phrasing as if by choice and not necessity.

When Hadid is nervous, he has to play phrases in his mind twice, first in Arabic and then translated into English, a strategy that he resorted to during his cross-examination.

Mr. Carter hinted at Coltrane's intensity in ballad statements, raced into modernist harmonies and used judicious double tonguing and overblown notes; he also played phrases that ached with the blues.

Try playing phrases with circular breathing, rather than single notes.

Will you play that phrase again?

In slow motion, she would play each phrase.

They play every phrase and episode of these elusive scores with vitality, insight and character.

"Sugarplum," said Miss DeLay, who died last March, "I love the way you play that phrase".

All this led to a question: wasn't it perverse to play a phrase with body language that was opposed to the musical idea itself?