How To Use Played In A Sentence

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That was from when she played the school computer nerd a couple of years ago.
Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
The man played idly with a deck of cards, shuffling and re-shuffling with a bit of a smirk on his face.
The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say

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A lot of hen breeders put chicks down if they have splayed legs, but she is way too cute for that. Times, Sunday Times
Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
Many had played around the world, including in North America's National Hockey League.
Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
It's the closest part he's ever played to his real self, but the fact that he played it kind of nelly was a big risk. A Pirate's Life
His brother Jeremiah played a stormer at corner back and his accurate deliveries to his forwards were one of the highlights of his play.
Alice played a clear note on the flute, picked up the piccolo and tried it.
Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
He fenced and boxed, but also played the cello, drew and had a deep appreciation of painting. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
Played three times for his native Northern Ireland. The Sun
The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
Thereby, one-dimensional or multidimensional attribute of call events is displayed simultaneously through the invention.
That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice rink that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.
Springtime for Henry played Broadway in the early '30s and then again in the early '50s but became a laughingstock as Edward Everett Horton repeatedly barnstormed it.
The shakuhachi is usually played solo or with the koto.
Once on the storage server, a photograph can be displayed on any TV screen or monitor in the house via a simple video client.
We've seen these kind of games played before in conference, where conferees drop provisions which they should not drop when they're both in the House and the Senate bills.
But neither of those initiatives, expensive as they are, approach the civic munificence displayed by the Federal Reserve. The Fed's Cash Machine
Amid fireworks, a color guard and torrents of cheers, 62 former Redskins were introduced on Sunday night at FedEx Field, from Carl Kammerer, who played in 1963, to Darnerien McCants, who retired in 2004. Shanahan, McNabb are helping the Redskins recapture their past
you and your fellow misogynistic homophobes masquerading as "traditionalist anglicans" have played out the string. Breakaway Fort Worth group responds to Episcopal Church lawsuit | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
The name is dowitcher. article in Monday's Calendar section about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival said Paul McCartney played a portion of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady. Undefined
models displayed clothes on a catwalk at the fashion show
In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there was a 'lansquenet'; at which Monsieur and Monseigneur always played; also Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
The music picked up the tempo and overhead a saxophone played sweet jazz.
‘Irony’ in its original form is the will of the fates or gods played out through the lives of mortals.
And after rewinding the film and watching it without any adrenaline to threaten our objectivity, it became pretty clear that during this year of epic passing, San Francisco played one of the greatest defensive games in playoff history. OK, Now That Was a Defense
I drew a smiley face, played tic-tac-toe with myself, drew another smiley face, scribbled all over it and finally, I wiped the ink off the plastic table.
A group of promising young musicians, accompanied by Peter Duffy, played a selection of polkas, marches, and the lovely air ‘Inis Oirr’.
Young people want to play snooker and want to see it played on the biggest stage. The Sun
No wonder, as Mr. Hamilton drily notes, that on the wall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (where Mendelssohn played and conducted) was Seneca's apothegm: "Res severa est verum gaudium. What Music Has Lost
Derry Rovers Youths gained sweet revenge over rivals Spink Celtic in this Shield match played in the Ben Mulhall Park on Sunday, April 7.
Moving Houses was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but here it is played (in a revised version) by the frumpily named Ethel.
Holmgren played bad cop to the hilt.
Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
Among Lelouch's films starring Ms. Girardot was 1969's "Un homme qui me plait" "A Man Who Pleases Me", in which she played opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo. Obituaries of note: Annie Girardot, Greg Goossen, Eddie Kirkland
When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
The game is no longer played for the thrill, but for quite different reasons. Times, Sunday Times
When her character (played by Winona Ryder) leaves the psychiatric institution never to return, the film takes a turn toward the tear-jerker.
A time when adventure came first and pure athleticism played only a minor role in the great climbing game.
It was nice listening to the two kids laughing their heads off as they played "moviemaking" on Sunday. Shlemazl
The variation of the game known as petanque was played using a 2,000-euro Chanel game set. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
These issues are being played out in Britain because it has become the focus of this incendiary global conflict.
The table was set for twenty; the sideboard displayed all manner of treats and tracklements.
They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
The Nomads played at the club on Thursday and proved very popular with the membership.
The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
The part is played by an American-born actress.
He played right into my vulnerable defenseless beginner trap.
At some time in their lives, they've played the piano, flute, clarinet, violin and cello and sung in choirs.
All seven characters are drawn with illuminating detail and superbly played by an outstanding young company.
I replied that we daren't go until we saw a reasonable chance (if I knew anything, we'd wait a long time for one), and so we bandied it to and fro and got no forrarder, and finally went to bed, played out. The Sky Writer
The game could be played in the reverse, where the metric is the number of people you see singing along/tapping feet/dancing. Hello Whatever I Will Call It
Or he would lecture her on the bad manners and delinquent habits of the twins, as displayed on their infrequent visits to him. Times, Sunday Times
Sport is played not through statistics, but through raw passion, ungirdled emotion and pure unadulterated spirit.
Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
Then we played some games: we threw bean bags into targets for prizes and ran relays, spun hula hoops and played tic-tac-toe, fulfilling the mitzvah of laughing and being merry on Sukkot. GLBT Families Come OUT to Decorate the Sukkah With GLOE « The Blog at 16th and Q
Sometimes they played the proud Bambara hunter in patterned brown and black mud-cloth robes.
Two blocks beyond our school was a field where boys played football.
He has studied and performed jazz from bebop to fusion, played as fluently with hardcore and heavy metal musicians as with soundtrack samples.
Recent innovations include plasma screens, interactive terminals and systems allowing advertisements to be displayed on a precise day at a precise time. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
They played with dogs and cats in the hay loft. Times, Sunday Times
We are told also by his sister -- and there is no incongruity in the two accounts -- that he early displayed a taste for 'preheminence and would preside over his playmates as their master and they his hired servants.' The Rowley Poems
He displayed the agonizer between two fingers, and waited. Firestorm
He was a left arm seamer and opening batsmen who played two first class matches.
Played in horrible conditions with gusting gales and sweeping rain this was never going to be a pretty affair.
He played the innings of a lifetime in Cape Town and bowled with verve and energy in each match. Times, Sunday Times
It is a tactical target sport played by wheelchair athletes with cerebral palsy and other conditions. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't want to be typecast and I think I've maintained a large variety in the roles I've played.
Its main characters are played by a dream team of heavyweight Hollywood dames (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) whose involvement screams ‘respectability’.
He came from a musical family, and he played the trumpet and the saxophone and had a fondness for jazz. Times, Sunday Times
The rascally youths had played a prank on Penguin.
A Carlow man was fined an accumulative sum of £150 for failing to have a tachograph on his lorry and having no tax displayed on his vehicle.
You displayed uncommon courage and valor.
One best and common example is the red diamond-shaped posters with the character 福 pinyin: fú, or "auspiciousness" which are displayed around the house and on doors. Sweetnicks- Food & Life - It's All at Sweetnicks
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It seemed to me that he displayed her on his arm as a falconer might hold aloft a. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The leading parts were played by Bill Holland and Claire Howell Daly.
Data on acquired dyslexia has played an important role in the dual-route model of reading.
Grandmother displayed all the warmth, enthusiasm, and flamboyance that she had loved so dearly in her brother Theodore.
For history buffs, nearly every community in the province has its own collection of historical exhibits displayed in tiny museums.
It is not known if the match will be replayed. Times, Sunday Times
The advanced military technology expertise of Shorts Brothers in Belfast played a crucial role in the war - for both sides.
Kate Winslet, cast before she played Marianne, wears no makeup and her hair is scraped back into an unbecoming bun.
And that desire to foster a copacetic synthesis between carbon-based life forms and artificial devices can be heard in every blip and digitized beat played.
This is a magical world of railway tracks that lead nowhere and rope swings that are played like a harp by the wind. Times, Sunday Times
The principal game played was hazard, of which there were two kinds.
Boycotts have played integral roles in reversing discrimination all over the world. Zack de la Rocha: Why the Boycott of Arizona Continues
Truthfully, those classifications have never really played a significant part in my own self-identification, and they never really became an issue until the self-awareness that comes with the late stages of middle school and early high school. Scott Janssen: Yes, I'm a White Male, and I Apologize for That
Conclusion: Both spinal and supraspinal neuronal Phosphoinositide 3-kinase(PI3K) pathway played important role in morphine dependent and naloxone-precipitated withdrawal response in mice.
They added a new character, played by Andrew Howard, who is a stellar actor and one of those actors who just kind of electrifies you on set and pulls you in. Pretty/Scary
He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
The Waterford team have now scored a total of 14 goals in their three games played and they have conceded only one.
Hockey is an 11-a-side game played over two halves of 35 minutes, with goals more often than not coming from set-pieces such as corners or penalties.
His sister played cricket, then considered very much a silvertail sport for girls in private schools.
As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa. An African Adventure
The disparity is played out on a bigger scale between cities. Times, Sunday Times
There were passages when Glasgow looked markedly the better side and played with much of the zing which was so often conspicuously absent last season.
At the annual holiday banquet, for instance, one employee each year wins the "Kraut" award -- a silver plate displayed at the front of the office -- along with a jar of sauerkraut. Top Small Workplaces 2007
Instead of trying to undo the damage inflicted by the villain, Captain Nero (played by Eric Bana), the challenge for our heroes is to stop Nero from causing any further damage. Star Trek 2009 Feature Film Review | Fan Cinema Today
His trophies were proudly displayed in a backlit cabinet.
They played around it as children, dossed around it as teenagers, brought weekend visitors to take pictures around it whenever they came to stay.
He played with the small silver stud in his ear.
When I played pro ball, I'd volunteer and coach in the off-season.
The hardships have been played down and there are only oblique references to the question of whether or not a ransom was paid. Times, Sunday Times
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These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
The match really was played in the best possible way: mistimed tackles were acknowledged and apologised for, yet no one held back a thing. Times, Sunday Times
The stadium reverberated with claps as brave Marathas displayed their skills in the sport, where the men showcased their acrobatics on poles.
The energy giants have played hardball - and a scheme to make them fund the handouts has proved unworkable. The Sun
The best pieces of American Jazz music will be played and performed on stage.
The world number one played a simple safety shot to leave the white ball on the bottom cushion and Doherty played the ball deadweight into the pack of reds.
An unspecified surfer from the USA came by via Yahoo looking for "gisele lindley" -- Ms. Lindley was the daring and lovely actress who played Princess in Oingo Boingo's misbegotten Forbidden Zone movie. View from the Northern Border
Delhi daredevils played their 2nd match for the airtel champions league t20 and it was a great match when Dinesh Karthik and Virender Sehwag played a knock which led delhi to a win agains the wayamba 11 which ad players like mahela jayawardene. Delhi daredevils win the match against wayamba 11
A new patient came into the office recently and told me she picked me over my partners because of the sheer amount of material displayed under my generic bio information on our practice website.
Freddie played mellophone and then trumpet as a teenager. Freddie Hubbard: “Children of The Night” (1963)
In what was a hard-fought encounter, the Dubliners played an uncompromising game under both boards.
Most of the teaching aids displayed are in or on the brink of obsolescence.
She played the violin and took ballet lessons. Times, Sunday Times
At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism. A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
It just seems as if Mother Earth had become young again, and was tossing her babies up to the summer sky, and the wind played hide-and-seek, or peep-bo, or some other ridiculous game, with them, and made the summer babies as glad and as mischievous as himself. My War Experiences in Two Continents
The songs, meanwhile, played on over city loudspeakers and local radios. Times, Sunday Times
Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
He played brilliantly for the first set but then went rather off the boil.
She played it to the hilt as an over-inebriated soprano trying to sing in an operetta.
Even they though are underplayed these days, as hockey seeks to woo that elusive grail - the family audience.
His uncles played for Belvedere and, from his first arrival, he seemed destined for good things.
By now he was in a huddle with two locals, fingering silent chords while one of them played something softly on a penny whistle.
Passage won five of the six games played and drew the other.
Terrified of secondary school, she left after one year and played truant for the following three. Times, Sunday Times
You'll remember that Caillois was of the opinion that most solitary games were agonic, played with the imagination of a community of similarly situated players. WoW v. MDY: Copyright, EULAs, and Game Rules
The Hansons were played by three young minor-league hockey players.
In both the 1901 and the 1888 works, the sunflowers are displayed on the seat of a chair, as if they had the status of a human sitting for a portrait.
They played a little rougher and a little better than us. Times, Sunday Times
I also loved the sophistication and harmony of jazz, the melody and, of course, the great solos that jazz cats played.
they played the adagio too quickly
When the pack is used up, all the played and discarded cards are gathered and shuffled to form a new pack to deal from.
He played a very important role in the emergence and furtherance of ecumenical teaching and thought.
Although vigoro is mainly played in Tasmania, Queensland and New South Wales, Hendley said the origins of the game began in Victoria more than a century ago. The Advertiser - Front Page
The game was played out althongh the light was bad.
The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
He was best known for his role as the dishevelled and eccentric television detective Columbo, which he played for more than 30 years.
This game is superior in complexity to English draughts by virtue of the fact that it is played on a board ten squares by ten squares and that capturing moves have an extended scope.
Thus they jested and reparteed and played one upon another all the while they sat at table. Essays and Miscellanies
The game was to have been played last Sunday week but was put back due to an objection being lodged against the Cork champions by the opposing team in the Munster final.
Ten years of war, social revolution, and invasion have played havoc with the Kampuchean population. Kampuchea: A Demographic Catastrophe
Vietnam has played the major role in the recent increase in rhino poaching. Times, Sunday Times
I played dumb, as if it wasn't my most favorite song in the entire world.
The sides played each other four times last season but only once did Leicester come out on top. Times, Sunday Times
He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga. Times, Sunday Times
A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters. Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See
Australian physiologist Frank Cotton played a central role in the evolution of the aviation garment in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1985-86, the domestic FA ordered the final round of league fixtures to be replayed amid accusations of match-fixing.
Usftl games are typically played on Sunday mornings on regulation football fields with 12-minute quarters.
The combustion flow field played important role in the NOx emission.
He displayed a winning combination of size, shape, definition and poise.
They had great food, there was always a good environment, and they played cool music in the background.
This episode was not played centre stage but on a small podium installed near the audience.
Not only did they provide the dictator with needed cash, but they played right into his scheme of using oil allocations to buy favor around the globe.
Then they brought their collars, and their wands, and their sistra in their hands, and displayed them before his majesty; and they sang -- Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
The distinguished cellist and educator Claudio Jaffee played his continuo line with artistic authority.
Collider called the reshoots "extensive," while FOX downplayed them, saying that the reshoots were always planned and telling Today on ReelzChannel - Videos
When I lived in India, I was appalled at the lack of respect for a livable life we all displayed.
His elder brother, Nails, still at school, played water-polo for the town and stole cars.
In the fields towards Heswall several pairs of brown hares lolloped and played in the long grass while pheasants strutted their stuff looking stunning in the sunlight.
After breakfast they played while I cleared up.
These New Puritans, an English band that has just released its debut album, “Beat Pyramid” (Domino), played rock that was spikier than a bushel of sea urchins. SXSW: 15 Minutes With These New Puritans - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Because some of them outplayed my team that's been playing. The Sun
For several months the prices displayed by the machines on insertion of the card have been in both euro and punts, but on Tuesday the machines refused to recognise euros!
The lady in the long skirt who rode a unicycle and played a violin was named Sybil. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
It is nice to get a bit of the "other side" of the story ... my version of World History taught in freshman year of High School, al; though not strictly anti-Catholic, nevertheless really downplayed the accomplishments of the Church. Weird Things
I think if you look at the way the Washington Redskin (s) played in some of the games toward the end of the season, they started to kind of jell together, have that chemistry, they started to play together and they played in a lot of close games. T.O. thinks the Redskins need a receiver
After the battalion commanded by Gyges, there came young boys crowned with myrtle-wreaths, and singing epithalamic hymns after the Lydian manner, accompanying themselves upon lyres of ivory, which they played with bows. King Candaules
She had, however, genteel lodgings, a spinnet on which she played, and a boy that walked before her chair. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
These are all displayed in giant bottom drawers. Times, Sunday Times
A country festival had brought together thousands of people; they pressed about the Emperor, who had mingled with the throng, with ringing shouts of "eljen" [_vive_]; they danced the csardas, waltzed, sang, played music, climbed into the trees, and crowded the court. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
Over the last few years he has displayed an impressive ear for up-and-coming indie bands. The Sun
However, he played with some uncertainty and tentativeness, and no one is sure just how durable he will be.
Mr. Sharp took those into account when writing the piece "Occam's Razor" for the New York-based ensembles the JACK Quartet and the Sirius Quartet, as well as for his own solo guitar piece, which will be played acoustically. The 'East Village Nosferatu' Haunts Brooklyn
When played as the High Card, jokers rank as aces.
This is not to diminish the roles that homophobia played or continues to play in exacerbating the problem.
Nature worship, spiritual worship and ancestor worship played a leading role in the formation of Chinese nature worship system.
And aren't we furious when we find out that people like the engineers at the Deepwater Horizon oilrig, have downplayed the dangers? Lise Van Susteren: Psychic Pains and Spilled Oil
The influence of overseas players in England has undoubtedly played a part.
He and I played together in a comedietta called “A Nice Quiet Day.” The Story of My Life
Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollicking tune played by the small band, and changing partners.
Her speech played heavily on the angry mood of her audience.
(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.) The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
They have played the most games of any team in the conference, so the onus is on them to have a strong finish. Handicapping the Western Conference playoff race
While they sang and played, the mother was busy in the kitchen preparing food for the night's dinner.
Andrian Fadeyev, Vishneva's loyal and well-matched partner over the years, also built his role by degrees, although he underplayed it nearly too well in the first act. Mariinsky's 'Giselle': Less is more
There is no doubt that Zbo played on Modigliani's illness to excite sympathy in a way which the artist did not appreciate.

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