Sentence examples for plays to type from inspiring English sources

In dress, he plays to type.

Everyone plays to type: the scold, the flirt, the prankster, the nice boss, the mean boss, the slacker, the dummy, the straight arrow.

In these exercises, everyone plays to type: the State Department urges negotiations, while the Joint Special Operations Command loads its soldiers and nuclear teams into airplanes.

Delta Burke plays to type as the feisty first lady, Judith Whitman, who is ignored by her husband (David Rasche, listed as a guest star and playing to type as a dolt).

If the Republican fringe plays to type and decides to savage John McCain, the party's winner in New Hampshire, once again, and if the Clinton camp continues to allow its baser instincts to rule, they will do more harm than good to themselves, to their parties and to the political process.

David Alan Grier (whose initials are D. A. G., get it?) plays to type as a bumbling, self-important Secret Service agent named Daggett, who is demoted from protecting the president (the A-team) to running errands for the first lady (the B-team).

Elsewhere in the region, our politicians are playing to type.

In the race itself, neither runner initially played to type.

Today, however, Mr. Obama didn't play to type.

Recent history shows that playing to type leads to unhappy endings.

Labour's opposing camps played to type after McMahon's victory.