Sentence examples for take up playing from inspiring English sources

If you're the kind of person that needs a new small triumph a few times an hour, take up playing billiards against toddlers.

Take up playing a sport.

With the extensive coverage promised, one assumes it will not be long before we look past the disability to the sport, but Snow's programme is about the whys and hows, and, given the devilish difficulty of the enterprise, you simply marvelled at why a blind person would take up playing football in the first place.

He will forgo his place at the US Open to take up playing opportunities on the European Tour.  .

Mr. Choudhury, his roommate, has taken up playing pool on a downtown team.

"I took up playing golf in England," says Tevez. "I wasn't playing football when I arrived.

In the early 1960s he went to Ethiopia, where he taught English, met Emperor Haile Selassie and took up playing jazz piano.

At least one woman I know took up playing because she felt it was the only way to reach her then boyfriend (and current husband).

Born in Hartford in 1928, Mr. Woloshin took up playing the violin at 8, ultimately earning bachelor's and master's degrees in the instrument at the Boston University College of Music.

It must have been a leap of faith, taken by academics and administrators who were personally removed from the dubious lure of video games, and the teenagers whose waking hours were taken up playing them in back bedrooms.

My weekends were mostly taken up playing video games, watching pro wrestling and painting a miniature Warhammer army.