Sentence examples for play shift from inspiring English sources

It was a game without any critical big play, shift of momentum or late run by the Irish (1-3).

The play shifted the momentum of the game.

One play shifted the advantage to the Gamecocks.

Once the plague is announced in the prologue, the idea gets lost and the play shifts focus.

Then the play shifts to Brutus's apartment, with what seems to be a sado-masochistic relationship gone irredeemably bad.

Mr. Pattinson's portrayal of a passionate, potentially dangerous husband capable of sexual rough play "shifts the story into another world," said Manohla Dargis, writing in The New York Times.

Mr. Mason's amiable, leisurely pace does not begin to generate the required urgency once the play shifts into its crime-solving mode.

Francesca Choy-Kee plays the daughter, Dee, and there is not a false note in her performance as the play shifts from the early 1980s to her school days a decade earlier and back again.

"My character says, 'Not very nice?' and suddenly Chris — who has been terrorizing us onstage — softens his face and the mood of the play shifts nicely," Ms. Kazan said.

Rather, the mixture of electronica beats and Japanese pop by the collective Genki Rockets is an integral part of the game play, shifting in time with the player's action.

In the beginning of the second round, play shifts back to the bottom halves of the men's and women's singles draws, which are no longer as loaded as they once were with the shocking exit of Rafael Nadal.