Sentence examples for would play off from inspiring English sources

The players would play off him.

But she was more interested in how his work would play off that of postwar painters who redefined American iconography, like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jackson Pollock.

"And there's a lot of earthy notes to the beer that I think would play off the pickled mustard greens as well".

As Tony Blair recounted in his memoirs, he realised that once Salmond had "his feet under the table", he would "play off against the Westminster government and embed himself".

Every four years, the bottom team of the first division would play off against the top team of the second division over a pair of two-game series, home and away, to decide promotion and relegation.

The specific plants he wanted to add to the garden — lily of the valley, pulmonaria, the hakonechloa — had various shades and textures that would play off each other in a visually interestingly way.

Meanwhile, Esther and I would play off-color city-kid patty cake, singing, "Went to the store to get a stick of butter/Saw James Brown sitting in the gutter/Took a piece of glass, shoved it...," and filling out the quatrain with expletives, which he never seemed to notice.

Sometimes they'd play off one against the other".

"We said we'd set out to be the best pair of corners in the league and that we'd play off each other and complement each other on every play," Starks said.

We would organize games where we'd play off against the guys two streets down from our homes.

If that situation remains at the end of the season, they would play-off for the title.