Sentence examples for took up playing from inspiring English sources

"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.

From the early 1960s, Takemitsu began to make use of traditional Japanese instruments in his music, and even took up playing the biwa an instrument he used in his score for the film Seppuku (1962).

My intuition was passed down as part and parcel of my femininity and is bound by the love and free spirit of my grandmother, Lela, who, after she and Franz returned home, took up playing the horses.

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

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.

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.