How To Use Play up In A Sentence
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To this end, when writing up the results of their ethnographic work, authors play up their academic credentials and qualifications, their previous experience, and so on.
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This is her response when asked what she thought of the screenplay upon first read.
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At daybreak the guns of the castle began to play upon the mosque, and, some of the shot penetrating its walls, the pusillanimous Jemal al-alum, being alarmed at the danger, judged it advisable to retreat from thence and to set up his standard in another quarter, called kampong Jawa, his people at the same time retaining possession of the mosque.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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The only real concern for holders and All-Ireland champions Kerry will be to play up to form.
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He can play up front or across the midfield and will add an extra bite to the team and our performances.
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Mr. Obama, by contrast, is what Mr. Steele describes as a bargainer, a black who appeals to the white majority by agreeing not to play up the nation's shameful racial history in return for not having his skin color held against him.
Race and the Presidential Race
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Warden, “grounded on a vain play upon words — a most idle paronomasia.”
The Monastery
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The journey from after dinner play up to the bathroom and into the bath is getting rough.
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This sluggish play up front was emphasised by the large number of unnecessary offsides given.
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Her challenge will be to play up her antifeminine qualities without being completely without charm and appeal.
Upstanding John Podhoretz warns of the uncivilized Charlie Rangel
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Of course the play upon this meaning of the word and the instrument called a kettledrum is intentional, the word "drum" meaning a crowded "evening party," "drum," applying to the close packing, as, a drum of figs. Answer also received from A BUSY BEE.
Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)
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It was a miracle that my prostate did not play up, which was my greatest concern.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter's Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his corpse was exhumed for public display upstairs in the basilica.
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You can enter numbers from both draws and play up to ten raffle numbers each week.
The Sun
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While most Aussie blokes passing through the US think a liberal smattering of “crikey”, “strewth” and “onya” is a short cut to getting a leg over a flighty divorcee, or becoming the most popular guy in a bar full of strangers, most Americans are familiar enough with Australians to wonder why it is we feel compelled to play up our bumpkinish image in the company of foreigners.
Cheeseburger Gothic » JB’s travel tips.
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Was it to do honor to the guest that Beatrix had wound into her hair those tufts of blue-bells that gave value to the pale tints of her creped curls, so arranged as to fall around her face and play upon the cheeks?
Beatrix
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Colorist Giselle placed golden highlights throughout Anna's hair to play up her gorgeous, olive skin tone.
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Innocent jokes depend upon verbal felicities, puns, play upon words, combining incongruous words, and so on.
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Play up your figure with fitted tops, spaghetti-strap blouses and dresses, jackets with cinched waists and sleeveless tanks with round, high necklines.
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The apostle is not satisfied with assuring them that they are under no obligations to the flesh, to hearken to its suggestions, without reminding them where it will end if they do; and he uses the word "mortify" (put to death) as a kind of play upon the word "die" just before.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and The Shining, similarly, both play upon the idea of a controlling elite of sadists who impose one reality on us, while frolicking in a zone of radically unbound libido themselves.
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He defended freedom of speech on the ground that ‘though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously to misdoubt her strength.’
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What the two of you do at a Halloween party to play up the "inappropriateness" of this pairing is totally your business.
Friday List: 10 excellent celebrity and pop culture Halloween costumes
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She often scolds me, too, but then I have learned to bear it, and, when she has done, if I can but steal out into the woods, and play upon my sticcado, I forget it all directly.’
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Though Puffy's image is occasionally cutesy, the singers themselves didn't play up the cute.
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The three elements composing his name signify "the mighty one of the great dwelling-place," but it is, again, an open question whether this is a mere play upon the character of the god, as in the name of Ea (according to one of the interpretations above suggested), or whether it is an ideographic form of the name.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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He could feel a change in the air, making his rheumatism play up.
LOST SUMMER
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Five Card Cribbage is different: you only play up to 31 once and one or both players may have unplayed cards at the end of the play.
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I've been training and dieting to accentuate my shoulders and waist - my two strong points - and play up my V taper.
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But she does not call herself Signora Ballatino, and she does not play upon the zithern.
John Ingerfield and Other Stories
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You might even play up the black wall by using super shiny gloss paint.
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_ Good cheer.] [Footnote 372: A play upon the double meaning of _a denajo_, which signifies also "for money."] [Footnote 373: A kind of rissole made of eggs, sweet herbs and cheese.] [Footnote 374: _Vernaccia_, a kind of rich white wine like Malmsey.]
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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My master has just now been making me play upon the spinnet, and sing to it; and was pleased to commend me for both.
Pamela
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Few English gentlemen (if any) could accompany their own songs on the pianoforte in my youth, Ida; most of them then had a wise idea that the pianoforte was an instrument 'only fit for women,' and would have as soon thought of trying to learn to play upon it as of studying the spinning-wheel.
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
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Every year there seems to be a new crime wave epidemic that the media seems to play up, but six months later they've forgotten about it.
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Before the new season Rovers will play up to eight friendlies, including games against Premier League teams Hearts and St Mirren.
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Spenser begins the stanza with an alliterative play upon ‘joyous’ and ‘just’ which lightens the atmosphere after the sober and tense portrayal of the knight's penance, while emphasising the worth of Charissa's lesson.
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Those words had become with her a phrase slyly to play upon.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
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She'd suggested he wear his best blue outfit for the first interview, to play up his friendly eyes and because the slightly fitted tailoring of the shirt made the suit look vaguely like a uniform.
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If the kid is good and if you have seen him at your elite camp or at your team camp or if they play up (on the 17 and under level in AAU) and if they play like a guy that can handle that kind of level, why not take him?
National notebook: Action heats up in June
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But be quick, now, and play up, or I 'll drive that ragamuffin from the church grounds in disgrace and by force!
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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At the centre, dispatchers keep track of taxis on monitor screens, which can display up to five cabs per pole.
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Advertised as a game, the online lottery is ‘played’ by buying a free slip over the counter, which allows the buyer to play up to six boards, each priced at Rs.10.
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Despite visits from both beaus, with J-WOWWs display up similar to a knight upon a white steed (or Escalade) with a fistful of roses, a prior relationships crumbled over a array of tearful duck-phone conversations.
'Jersey Shore' recap: Ruined relationships, but perfect hair | EW.com
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You know how they try to play up how ‘humane’ they are, using the ‘best science,’ blah, blah, blah…
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Shades of amber light play upon the heavy wooden ceiling beams and exquisitely embroidered wall hangings.
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I have no work given me to do; and the spinnet, if in tune, will not find my mind, I am sure, in tune to play upon it.
Pamela
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Play up your strongest arguments in the opening paragraph.
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With Samuel French receiving medical treatment for mild hypothermia warhorse George Day took control of midfield and opened play up.
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Did he "downplay" the significance of Florida and Ohio or play up the significance of other states - VA, NV, CO, MO, NC ... etc
Obama Camp Downplays Ohio and Florida As Must-Wins
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Sometimes I play up being odd and eccentric, just to put distance between me and other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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And there was always a lot of jolly fellows, and usedn't they to cheer me w'en the horses 'u'd play up a bit.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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What the two of you do at a Halloween party to play up the "inappropriateness" of this pairing is totally your business.
Friday List: 10 excellent celebrity and pop culture Halloween costumes
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David Healy may at last get his chance to play up front alongside Rob Hulse when Leeds take on Wolves tomorrow.
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Peter Crouch comes on for Owen - if he gets booked, England will only have Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott to play up front in their quarter-final against Germany.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton is a bitch who should play up her antifeminine qualities and go back to Arkansas and rot.
Upstanding John Podhoretz warns of the uncivilized Charlie Rangel
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Rally organizers gleefully play up the potential for unpleasant, unexpected catastrophe—catnip for the type of New Yorker who thrives on attempting arduous feats, from monthlong juice fasts to autorickshaw journeys.
Around the World in 80 Ways
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She waited for my answer this time, and something in the eagerness of her expression begged me to play up to her lead.
The Jervaise Comedy
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He makes big plays and his ability to play up in the box would be a definite asset in Dom Capers' zone blitz scheme.
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Thin horizontal letterboxed shots play up moments of great significance.
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Each numeral is outlined by silvered disks of reflecting material, and floodlights play upon the figures to make them show up clearly at a distance.
Boing Boing
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In September to mid November, the training program will reach its peak with the bowlers expected to play up to 75 games.
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The one stumbling block is perhaps Graham's voice. It remains as reedy and weedy as ever, giving the impression of the love-lorn loser that this critic suspects he rather likes to play up to.
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III. i.91 (443,8) It was my deer] The play upon _deer_ and _dear_ has been used by Waller, who calls a lady's girdle, _The pale that held my lovely_ deer.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Adami remarks that Weismann would make the somewhat subtle distinction that the toxins produce these results not by acting on the body-cells but by direct action on the germ-cells, that the inheritance is blastogenic not somatogenic, and calls this 'a sorry and almost Jesuitic play upon words. '
Hormones and Heredity
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And there was always a lot of jolly fellows, and usedn't they to cheer me w'en the horses 'u'd play up a bit.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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She could play upon the harp and paint in water-colours, and her needlework was a picture, but not half so pretty a picture as her face.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories
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Your players will win points if they pick up red or yellow cards, score own goals, are substituted, concede goals or, if they play up front, fail to score.
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Those unfortunates who don't make it will then play up to seven more events to determine who gets to play the tour in 2008 and who doesn't.
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That's just one apocryphal Bergman factoid (Webster's dates "dramaturg" back to 1870) that theater producer Andrew Higgie has collected over the half dozen years it has taken him to get the filmmaker's "Through a Glass Darkly" screenplay up and running as a stage play at London's
Variety.com
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At Lacedaemon there was a choragus who led the chorus with a flute, and at Athens the instrument became so popular that most freemen could play upon it.
Politics
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The American joke is to play up to the European ( and Eastern ) legend of the West.
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Play up your natural flush with subtle shades of apricot or rose.
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Sometimes I play up being odd and eccentric, just to put distance between me and other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then one day a little tentacle of the octopus, just to amuse itself, ingurgitated Dawe's capital, and he moved to the Gramercy Park neighborhood where one, for a few groats per week, may sit upon one's trunk under eight-branched chandeliers and opposite Carrara marble mantels and watch the mice play upon the floor.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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Sometimes I play up being odd and eccentric, just to put distance between me and other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can enter numbers from both draws and play up to ten raffle numbers each week.
The Sun
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The bags were launched in April 2009 with a big marketing effort to play up their compostability because they're made from plants and not plastic.
Frito-Lay Trashes SunChips Bag After Biodegradable Packaging Criticized For Being Too Noisy
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The light is diverted by a reflector to a powerful thin-film transistor display upon which the 65,000 pixel color images are composed.
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Logan, what you seem to miscomprehend here is that everything you mention is "Pumping the Bubble" -- which can be characterized as a grand invitation to a carnival where everyone is encouraged to take part in a vast game by card sharks who play up all the marks into investing in a ponzi scheme; which it is their intent to walk away with in the closing hours of the game.
Barack Obama: Crime Boss
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The software can display up to 128 channels of data simultaneously at sampling rates as high as 100,000 samples/second. iWorx cardiovascular research solutions include complete tissue baths systems, blood flow systems, and myograph systems.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Fearful of being accused of complacency, they fail to allay public fears and often play up hypothetical risks.
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The Manchester centre is the nucleus of a hi-tech surveillance system and features an 18-metre monitor wall that can display up to 180 high-resolution images.
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II. ii.56 (444,8) gild the faces of the grooms withal,/For it must seem their guilt] Could Shakespeare possibly mean to play upon the similitude of _gild_ and _guilt_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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The cell was so small that my legs, which are long, had to be tucked up almost under my chin; I could imagine that in hot weather the want of air would be oppressive, but though the sense of being so closely confined was disagreeable, the draughts from the ventilators seemed to play upon one almost excessively and I felt very cold.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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Eriksson still has not worked out the best partnership to play up front.
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He deletes that infamous unresolved opening chord and inserts some suitably ominous guitar atmospherics that play up the desperation obscured by the Beatles' peppy original.
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Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus.
Lives of the English Poets
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One spread in the first issue reads, ‘She knows how to play up those gorgeous gams and big brown eyes with the latest relaxed and layered styles.’
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[FN#57] There is a play upon words in this line, founded upon the double meaning of the word shirk, sharing (or partnership) and polytheism or the attributing partners or equals to God (as in the Trinity), the one unpardonable sin of the Muslim religious code.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
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Poor chemistry was a byproduct from the combined $66.5 million contracts given to cornerback Drayton Florence and wide receiver Jerry Porter, who didn't play up to their salaries, causing resentment among some veterans.
After lost season, Jags seek how to put 'train' back on track
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Ms Katzoff attempts to play up the apparent synchronism of Duchovny's body of dramatic work with his current personal drama.
David Duchovny’s Sex Addiction: The Signs Were There » MTV Movies Blog
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He saw ‘some small fish to skip, and play upon the surface of the water’ which turned out to be a school of pilchards.
