Sentence examples for plays it off from inspiring English sources

Still, the Swift 7 plays it off, by having all of its other dimensions kept incredibly thin and straight to the point.

The running portrait of Jeter as a baseball saint is most effective when O'Connor plays it off his sinner's view of Alex Rodriguez.

("Actually, it's 40," she says, interjecting with a smile but an unmistakable note of sharpness). Buttigieg plays it off laughingly, saying he's so much more impressed with her now, since "in our legislature back home, four bills for a Democrat would be quite a feat," and hands over the mic to the candidate, who smiles a bit warily, looking like she knows she's been upstaged.

"Big claim for handball from Accies as Morris plays it off McManus but the ref (correctly, I think) deems it not to have been deliberate". Rangers' Gedion Zelalem challenges for the ball against Dumbarton goalkeeper Mark Brown.Image caption: Rangers' Gedion Zelalem challenges for the ball against Dumbarton goalkeeper Mark Brown.

By not drawing attention to the obvious difference, Atlanta plays it off as normal, inviting viewers to simply accept and believe these new circumstances instead of providing us with a big wink that breaks the fourth wall.

His depth and pragmatism are easily disguised, and he plays it off too: "Naive is the best word to describe me," he tells The Creators Project, and regarding his latest, he says that he, "Didn't so much tell a story as express a general feeling of melancholy".

When done playing turn it off.

Although the news is as grim as it gets, both Covad and its customers played it off as if the future couldn't be brighter.

"I thought I would play it off".

They played it off, and the Dodgers went home.

The Patriots organization played it off as an intentional gift.