Sentence examples for thanks to playing from inspiring English sources

In the backs' initial strike play there was still a tendency to try runaround plays to fix the opponents' midfield and this may be because they are short of physical presence in midfield thanks to playing two fly-halfs.

Rowan Atkinson, 48 Why: A comedy millionaire several times over, thanks to playing a series of nerds and dweebs in a career that began on Not The Nine O'Clock News.

Like Amy Adams and Gwyneth Paltrow, Portman lands on our list mostly thanks to playing second fiddle to a guy in a silly costume.

Q: You've been labeled "America's Sweetheart," thanks to playing Rachel on Friends, and various films.

But with "Edwardian Opulence," the curators Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager ask us to look anew at an era we feel we know well, thanks to plays and novels and, yes, film and television dramas like "Downton Abbey" and "Upstairs, Downstairs".

The researchers suspect that a priest would call to the oracle in full view of the assembled crowd, and the haunting sound of a pututu would emerge, thanks to someone playing the conch shell instrument inside the structure.

Ahead of the Iraq war, the alliance was at first unable, thanks to France, to play even a bit part, by providing air-defences to Turkey.

Deposits arrived in small amounts every couple of weeks thanks to a job playing piano at church.

And those dry police reports about increased "foot traffic" in cities thanks to overgrown kidults playing the game?

JOSEPH (MONTVALE) (3-0) defeated BARRINGER (1-3), 42-8, thanks to the play of its backfield.

FARMINGDALE shut out HEMPSTEAD, 21-0, toanks thethe play of their inside linebackers.