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How To Use playing In A Sentence

• The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
• Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
• These deals are large and complex, requiring a lot more than just a "consigliere" -- a term always used with "The Godfather" playing in the background -- sitting in a dark room plotting with a CEO. Robert Teitelman: Svengalis, Bankers and the Role of Intermediaries
• Even if you're not into playing the ponies, the setting is marvelous and it's a superb place for a picnic.
• He has made derogative remarks, made players uncomfortable playing for him, and is not leading the team in the right direction.
• The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
• We ask for a level playing field when we compete with foreign companies.
• Enamored of his prose, I snatched up a long-playing record of the author reading those two stories at an antiquarian book fair several years ago, even though I didn't own a record player.
• Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
• And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’