Sentence examples for play trophy from inspiring English sources

That act, alone, is worth the FIFA so-called Fair Play Trophy at the end of this season.

The Fair Play Trophy, sponsored by Samsung, and $50,000 will be awarded for the first time in 2011 to the team with the best discipline in each edition.

Peru reached the quarter-finals in 1970, losing to the tournament winners Brazil, and earned the first FIFA Fair Play Trophy; the team was, Richard Henshaw writes, "the surprise of the 1970 competition, showing flair and a high level of skill".

While handing out the award Scorsese said of the actress, who gave one of her most memorable performances playing trophy wife Ginger McKenna in gangster opera Casino: "Sharon Stone is incredibly beautiful, she's also brilliant, fearless, charming, very funny and absolutely wild and she's a true star.

Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher played trophy wife Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies.

To get trophies faster, play Trophy Rush.

— There have been so many honor societies created at Commack High School on Long Island in recent years that some students ended up in six or seven of them, racking up memberships like so many merit badges or thanks-for-playing trophies.

Students who saw star athletes and bench warmers alike rewarded with thanks-for-playing trophies are now experiencing new efforts to protect their self-esteem: An editor has been charged with tracking how often all 1,400 students appear in the 325-page yearbook.

Åkerman said that she was initially put off by the title, having previously expressed frustration at constantly being asked to play the "trophy wife".

Although admitting that sex appeal is one of the "best assets", Åkerman considers being beautiful both "a blessing and a curse", stating, "I tend to get a lot of scripts in which people want me to play the trophy wife, which is frustrating because I want the interesting, meaty roles".

But his big break came at age 25 when he was cast in "Death on the Nile," a big-budget screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, in which he played the trophy husband of the heiress, played by Lois Chiles, who is murdered aboard a Nile River cruiser.