Sentence examples for proper play from inspiring English sources

"proper play" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when referring to an activity that has been done correctly, or is within the rules of the game. For example, "After his own proper play, he won the game."

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Write me a proper play, a funny play".

A proper play, about something big, a story about what might become history.

The first proper play I acted in was Saved by Edward Bond.

They wrote a TV film, Christmas, together, and Butterworth created his first proper play, Mojo.

"The Waverly Gallery" isn't so much a proper play as an essayistic memoir given dramatic form.

Of these, only "Mrs. Farnsworth," which starred Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow, is a proper play with credible characters.

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But now, with some proper play-time under the belt, there is a major problem – it doesn't work.

"You got to make proper plays," he said.

More bizarrely, "Golda's Balcony" and "Trumbo" -- more historical portraits than proper plays -- get the highest marks (27 for both) for the stories they tell.

Proper playing of the guqin is a metaphor for good governance — "if the large strings are too tight, the small strings will break" — and emperors were often portrayed holding a guqin.

Okodi says that once the school communities clear the stumps, his team will measure the pitches and fix the goal posts, but there is no budget for planting grass for a proper playing surface.

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