Sentence examples for were play from inspiring English sources

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were play

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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.

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When the taxi driver overcharges him, he laughs as if the fare were play money.

Two kids were play fighting, wrestling on the soccer field, one in a puffy red jacket, the other in a puffy blue jacket.

There were play areas, multicoloured sheep gambolling in a pen and a modern take on Robin Hood in the open air theatre being watched by kids in deelyboppers.

His favorites were Play the King, who won the Queen's Plate, and Izvestia, the platinum gray who took the Canadian Triple Crown.

Its huge rooms, bell pulls for servants (my mother in our day), front and side porches, and the third-floor ballroom were play spaces for my sister and me.

In the course of an authorised operation it may be, for example, if an ASIO operative were to penetrate covertly a terrorist network or a terrorist cell and had to, as it were, play along with the planning, technically that ASIO operative might be liable but for an immunity for the offence of conspiracy," he said.

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He discovered that mouthwash users were play-by-the-rules types who followed the instructions on a product's label.

We were playing Maquoit High School".

"We were playing better.

"Children were playing outside".

We were playing panicky.

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