Sentence examples for the played from inspiring English sources
verb
To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
- They played long and hard.
Visit to the locker room of the Knickerbockers, New York's professional basketball team, just before the played the Syracuse Nationals.
But every now and then there have to be evenings like this, when the players take precedence over the played.
It tanked, and the series of shows the played to promote it became known as the Down the Tubes tour.
When the play begins, a small trap door in the screen is opened so that everyone can see the dummy and all of the played cards.
Mourinho got the better of Wenger in last season's drubbing – which just happened to be the Frenchman's 1,000th game in charge of the Gunners – while the played out a draw in the corresponding fixture at the Emirates.
Robinson and his wife, Rachel, stayed there when the played for the minor league Montreal Royals in the last season before he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Get the playing arena ready.
Slip the reel into the rack, wind up the played-out film!
MIKE HALE: Wonder what some of the played-off winners are thinking, watching the longest presentation in awards-show history.
He does what he can, but there aren't many opportunities for invention left in the played-out formula.
