How To Use Play down In A Sentence
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She was inclined to play down the importance of her own role in the affair.
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The government sought to play down the extent of the problem.
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All the stories are datelined in Moscow, and Duranty goes to some lengths to play down the crisis.
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Regardless shouldn't play down chronic lack of sleep.
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It's a well-tried tactic to play down public expectations in advance of a superpower summit.
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He needs ball winners of the quality of Keano to allow him to play down the right.
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The pub also has a cricket team who play down the road and spill out on to the green afterwards.
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Is play down house property holding tax to confuse right and wrong?
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Nash again victimized his former team with 39 points, 12 assists, nine rebounds and every big play down the stretch as the Phoenix Suns reached the Western Conference finals for the first time in 12 years with a 130-126 overtime victory.
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Play down lips and keep skin lightly bronzed.
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In fact, women who are beautiful and brainy often try to play down their intelligence.
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In an earlier edition, this also appeared: "Even George W Bush, who tried to portray himself as a homespun Texas rancher, would put on white tie and tails when banqueting with the Queen of England" Cameron has spent years trying to play down his privileged background ..., 22 April, page 5, G2.
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As the Indigenous Peoples fought back, so the settlers in their reports to London had to play down the level of violence, for fear of scaring off potential investors and settlers.
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PARTICIPATING IN last week's interfaith event at Seton Hall University, an Iraqi law professor sought to play down what the Western media often describe as the unbridgeable divide between Iraq's Shia majority and its Sunni minority.
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His strategy is to play down expectations for a breakthrough while hinting with ever increasing menace that the longer it takes the harder it will be to end the deadlock.
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Play down lips and keep skin lightly bronzed.
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He has tried to play down his involvement in the affair.
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They were obviously trying to play down the gay content and cross over to straight audiences.
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No matter how the Chancellor attempts to play down the danger, the taxpayer will be taking risks that the banks are no longer prepared to take.
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He refused to play down Pakistan's chances and call India the stronger contenders.
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Not even Mr Morton can play down the gravity of this latest crisis.
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Sudanese ministers had been trying to play down the case, fearing a public backlash that might make a speedy resolution impossible and further diplomatic isolation inevitable.
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O'Rowe's adaptation strips the play down to its essentials and presents a spare and tight historical drama shorn of any excess speechifying and wandering.
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That can be key if you're protecting a lead but teams sometimes kill their attacking chances by slowing play down.
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The company is anxious to play down the media hype.
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The White House spokeswoman sought to play down the significance of the event.
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As soon as she was out the door, he was calling the florist to make sure all the arrangements matched her hair, the photographer to make sure he had lights to play down the pink and the society columnist to ensure a positive spin on the press coverage.
The Brush Off
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Many actors play down the intellectual side of their work, and talk instead about operating on emotion and instinct.
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Sure, because this was a throwaway that would play downtown for 48 hours and that was it.
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Razor cutting also creates surface texture that you can emphasize with texture creams or play down by using a flat iron.
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Like the wonk he is, Vidale also broke the play down into a time series and compared it with the squiggles on the seismogram.
The Seattle Times
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Their natural disposition is to make light of the scars of battle - to laugh off the danger and play down the wounds.
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She's dressed to show off her toned stomach and play down her shapely legs.
The Sun
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But coming from them, that could also be seen as an attempt to play down the hunting connection, almost as if they were ashamed of holding such unfashionable views.
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It was my role - apparently - to decode the story, suggest its origins, play down its significance and generally nanny him into a better humour.
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`My government were desperate to play down the military's involvement in the attempted putsch.
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He tried to play down his importance to the team, saying he is still young and needs space to develop.
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Rebecca Cattle netted the opener after great play down the right by Lucy McNamara.
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The White House spokeswoman sought to play down the significance of the event.
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But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations.
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Center and city officials play down the troubles, saying they are typical of any start-up operation.
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The company is testing new formats that play down users' photos.
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They derisively call the embrace of gay culture "pinkwashing" - a conscious attempt to play down what they call violations of Palestinian human rights by Israel behind an image of tolerance.
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Sudanese ministers had been trying to play down the case, fearing a public backlash that might make a speedy resolution impossible and further diplomatic isolation inevitable.
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Ministers are likely therefore to play down any proposal for an American-style grid system, insisting that it would be looked at for research purposes only.
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Gavin Mahon may play down the right with either Nielsen or Stephen Glass down the left.
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Play down lips and keep skin lightly bronzed.
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The Mail's article continues: The timing of the story has once again sparked suspicions that the journalist is being used by the government to play down its own part in the current mess.
"Is BBC reporter Robert Peston a government stooge?"
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He tries ever so hard to play down the significance of this glaring omission from an otherwise impeccable CV but he doth protest too much, methinks.
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That can be key if you're protecting a lead but teams sometimes kill their attacking chances by slowing play down.
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Rather than play down the danger, he happily reported that the entire area is littered with countless land mines.
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The government are trying to play down their involvement in the affair.
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The company is anxious to play down the media hype.
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A curious mixture of vanity and insecurity, she is keen to play down her on-screen image.
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But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams.
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She tried to play down his part in the affair.
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She was inclined to play down the importance of her own role in the affair.
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South African ministers appeared determined to play down warnings of xenophobic violence.
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She's dressed to show off her toned stomach and play down her shapely legs.
The Sun
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The pub also has a cricket team who play down the road and spill out on to the green afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the first hours, both the company and local authorities attempted to play down the extent of the tragedy, denying that many miners were in the mine at the time of the fire.
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She is anxious to play down stardom by association: 'We had some times together.
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Ministers are likely therefore to play down any proposal for an American-style grid system, insisting that it would be looked at for research purposes only.
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Their natural disposition is to make light of the scars of battle - to laugh off the danger and play down the wounds.
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In their classroom talks, all these teachers emphasized just what modern education tends to play down: facts, data, hard news.
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