Sentence examples for play words from inspiring English sources

The phrase "play words" is not correct or commonly used in written English.
The correct phrase would be "word play" or "playing with words". Example: The politician was skilled at word play, using clever phrases to sway the audience's opinions.

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Do you play Words with Friends yourself?

I'm getting my phone to play Words with Friends.

"Swang and I play Words With Friends every night," the donor said.

I see public grooming as no worse than watching someone play Words With Friends or listening to fellow passengers chat.

Throughout the play, words and phrases carry double weight and double meaning, depending on their application to the apparent murder or to the underlying politics.

You can now play words like devo (as in devolution/devo max), twerking ("a type of dance involving rapid hip movement"), onesie, vape (inhaling from an electronic cigarette) and podiumed, the past participle used frequently in the Olympic Games.

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I'm going to play word association with you.

"I am not going to play word games with you," Finchem replied.

Ask me to play word-association, and the word "pasty" to me says "railway journey" not "gritty".

Let's play word association.

3. Racial Profiling Lets play word association.

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