VERB
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perform or be performed to the end
How will the election drama be played out? -
become spent or exhausted
The champion's strength played out fast -
play to a finish
We have got to play this game out, even thought it is clear that we have last -
deplete
We quickly played out our strength
exhaust one's savings
How To Use play out In A Sentence
- We’re seeing this play out in excruciatingly agonizing detail with tomorrow’s appearance in Congress of General Petraeus. Scripting News for 9/9/07 « Scripting News Annex
- Levels and characters are combined into lengthy cutscenes that play out well and help to maintain the overall humorous feel of the game.
- I really wanted to know what it was like to play out of knee-high rough. Times, Sunday Times
- Ricks' piece in the Post suggests that there are too many imponderables to predict at this point how these developments will play out.
- We knew if he snapped the same scenario would play out. The Sun
- Both are young centre backs who have been forced to play out of position on the flanks and are deserving of considerable sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
- Right before they hit, they kind of splay out into this starburst pattern. Chicagotribune.com -
- He never superimposes the lens into situations, and he lets scenarios play out before, not because of, him.
- Brett Deering for The Wall Street Journal Capri can now play outside with her brother Cooper, 10, and sister Calli, 7, without getting exhausted. After Gene Found, Drugs Come Slowly
- Maybe we can feel the chiliasm coming, but it's not here yet — we still have to play out the last minutes of the game even if the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Spin
