Sentence examples for playing sensible from inspiring English sources

The other comes late to international recognition but chugs about depriving more artistic players of the ball, throwing himself in the way of shots and playing sensible passes.

The embarrassment against Chile "could have been avoided playing sensible football, not trying to reinvent the wheel," said Esteban Illades, editor of the Mexican magazine Nexos.

He's playing sensible golf here: forcing nothing, knowing full well Pinehurst is prepared to bite, and grab a few of those shots back.

"The French crowd have gone quiet because Scotland are playing sensible rugby". It's being played at a terrific pace, this match; arguably at the expense of quality, but none the less, it's a fascinating watch.

I think what's kept people playing Sensible Soccer is that immediacy.

"I think what's kept people playing Sensible Soccer is that immediacy," Hare told me, back in November 2015.

But for those 28 overs we played sensible cricket.

By 9 years old, he says: "I could play sensible, good things.

Aaron Finch played sensible cricket and got his team into a position where he could attack the bowling". England captain Eoin Morgan: "I think the score was probably above par even though the wicket was very good.

"I went out there thinking that if I could play sensible and keep the bogeys off my card I was going to have opportunities for birdie and I was bound to make some," he added.

"House of Nails" is a story of exceptional excess that finds our memoirist playing the sensible adult in his friendship with Charlie Sheen; buying Wayne Gretzky's house for $17.5 million; and paying detectives $500,000 to dig up dirt on umpires so that he could suborn their objectivity by telling them embarrassing things about their private lives while at bat.