6 sentences with 'playing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word playing and other words derived from it.
• « The boy had just turned 14, was playing soccer and basketball (he was the best shooter!), and was getting good grades in school. »
• « He regained his spirits and finished playing the Brahms sonata he was performing with great aplomb. »
• « When we go to the Colón theatre, we are not much better. With our eyes closed and in front of the orchestra playing in full, we intuitively "know" that the violin is behind the piano, the timpani above, the trumpet to the left, but all very sketchily, and, I stress, only if the orchestra deigns to play. That's all we have ears for. »
• « However, to avoid typecasting herself in one role, she risked playing characters opposite her type: the temperamental actress Gertrude Lawrence in Star!, an enemy spy in Darling Lili, a treacherous secretary in The Tamarind Seed. »
• « The kings of Ur III were very adept at playing their civic and military leaders off against each other, appointing generals to lead troops in other cities and ensuring that each governor's power depended on his loyalty to the king. »