Sentence examples for which meant playing from inspiring English sources

So we tried to make it comfortable for him, which meant playing roughly like his previous group.

With two top trumps missing, he could afford only one club loser, which meant playing on diamonds immediately.

Entering the previous round, the Devils understood that their best chance to beat the favored Philadelphia Flyers was to stay out of the penalty box, which meant playing between the whistles and not retaliating.

For the second time in two West Coast swings, the Nationals played on "Sunday Night Baseball," which meant playing on a slightly bigger stage — if getting home much later — than they normally would on getaway day.

The point of the program, he added, was to show off as many of the Philharmonic first-chair players as possible in a single concert, which meant playing excerpts.

It was 3 p.m. and the California sunlight was beating at the windows, but the Lair's front shutters were drawn tight, leaving the gamers to focus in the darkness on their training, which meant playing video games from dawn to dusk each day, or from dusk to dawn each night.

We just understand it as selling more tickets, which means playing more shows, which is cool.

Or he can ruffle few feathers but make a stupendous living by playing it safe, which means playing to the middle.

He decided his goal was to play for Russia in the 2010 Olympics, which means playing at least three more N.H.L. seasons.

He delineated the difference between the word chori, which means stealing, and kamchori, which means playing truant, a distinction that implies his uncle meant to advocate taking off from work instead of stealing.

He has eschewed the slow route to Senate prominence, which would have involved building alliances, for the fast track, which means playing the firebrand, playing to the cheap seats and playing to a news cycle that thrills to conflict.