Sentence examples for playing the local from inspiring English sources

The delegates snigger when Javier Bardem bobs up at the pulpit, playing the local priest.

In 1967 she entered Harvard's Radcliffe College majoring in Social Relations and African Studies and playing the local coffeehouses.

Camp Hastie has been playing the local game since day one in an attempt to distance themselves from the polarising figure of Tony Abbott.

Now officials are faced with the problem of ticket sales, something akin to word getting out about Springsteen playing the local prom.

Chances are it will be playing the local pop music, and chances are that music will be both familiar and, refreshingly, unfamiliar.

In the first moments of Mr Lee's "Do the Right Thing," shot in a steamy palette of oranges and reds, Samuel L. Jackson, playing the local D.J., announces the weather with an apocalyptic air.

"Play the local news headlines".

It co-stars Vera Farmiga and Vincent D'Onofrio, while Billy Bob Thorton plays the local prosecutor.

The Labour candidate was effective and Labour played the local card to maximum effect.

He rehearses a small band of local musicians at his house once a week and plays the local pubs occasionally.

Requiem for a Dream actor Ellen Burstyn plays the local cult leader, Christopher Lee's part in the 1973 original.