VERB
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commit adultery
he plays around a lot -
work with in an amateurish manner
He plays around with investments but he never makes any money
She dabbles in astronomy
How To Use play around In A Sentence
- We would play around the fountains, and if we had money to hire a boat from the boating club, go boating in the ponds navigating carefully through a crowd of lotuses and lilies.
- The old man told the children not to play around the pond.
- It would be very easy to write another play in which quite different medical views are presented, and where will it lead us if the various treatments of tuberculosis, perhaps by the Friedmann cures, or of diphtheria, perhaps by chiropractice or osteopathy, are to be fought out on the stage until finally the editors of _Life_ would write a play around their usual thesis that the physicians are destroying mankind and that our modern medicine is humbug. Psychology and Social Sanity
- They scrummaged better to retain possession and their mobile backs forced errors from the home side, creating promising field positions to score a couple of vital tries from incisive inter-play around the scrummage.
- The performance by street children of the project, uses the whole repertoire from tamasha to vaudeville to create a delightful play around a poor child's desire to get education.
- Most of the audience is engaged in byplay around this central scene.
- 109 However, once Paxton decided to write the screenplay around the conventions of the police procedural, Finlay usurps Keeley as the film's main antifascist agent and he, rather than Keeley, becomes responsible for bringing Monty to justice. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
- After the middling and mundane meal, a sub-group is scooting off to see a play around the corner, while several latecomers stay to eat and chat.
- You can't play around with this assignment; it's something that needs to be buckled down to seriously.
- You can't play around with this assignment; it's something that needs to be buckled down to seriously.