Sentence examples for under plays from inspiring English sources
The phrase "under plays" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be a misspelling or misinterpretation of "underplays," which means to downplay or minimize the importance of something. Example: "She tends to underplay her achievements, even though they are quite impressive."
Rachel Griffiths, who starred in "Brothers & Sisters" and "Six Feet Under," plays Mackenzie Granger, who inherited the property from her parents and is struggling to keep it going.
An actor himself (he recently played Scott Templeton, the journalistic rat on "The Wire"), Mr. McCarthy scrupulously avoids big moments and telegraphed emotions, and Mr. Jenkins, a durable character actor known to HBO subscribers as the spectral father on "Six Feet Under," plays his repressed, circumspect character with exquisite tact.
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") plays the urchin turned gentlewoman Eliza Doolittle, with Harry Hasden-Paton as Henry Higgins.
CAMP (NBC, July 10) Rachel Griffiths ("Brothers and Sisters," "Six Feet Under") plays a summer camp director in this new drama, an American production filmed in Australia.
SWIMMING -- Lauren Ambrose of "Six Feet Under" plays a sexually uptight teenager working in her father's diner in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Michael C. Hall of "Six Feet Under" plays the now-cuddly, now-abusive imaginary friend of a neglected 4-year-old.
He has won some support from academics and environmentalists who think the government has under-played its potential.
I think our secret weapon would be to under-play the cool stuff.
I'm 9-under, playing the last in good shape and hit a bad shot.
He praised Blackie's ability to under-play a scene, "and the muzzle that came out in 3D?
For the first 2 to 3 days under-play contact with the cat.
