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.
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
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.
We ask for a level playing field when we compete with foreign companies.
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.

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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.’
Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
Once all that is figured out, the most confusing factor in the equation must be pondered: playing time.
I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use. Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
The 32-year-old actress spent a large proportion of the week playing cat and mouse with the press.
I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
Just like playing poker, it's all about bluffing. The Sun
Even if you're not into playing the ponies, the setting is marvelous and it's a superb place for a picnic.
Christie knows that the continuity in playing personnel is a major strength and it's not one he plans to undermine with a cut-price garage sale.
A son of Israel has no gods whom he can libate," he said, playing with the water to hide his amazement, now greater than before. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
Of course, the kobold’s nonexistence is no reason to stop playing the game … Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing.
Although tensions existed between the army and the group, the president defused them by playing the politics of tribalism and regionalism, often targeting northerners as the source of the nation's problems.
I really got into gambling in a big way, and ended up playing blackjack with some pretty scary people, but it was a riot.
The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
The arcade is an indoor playground, a room full of games and toys, and people playing them.
I was getting really determined that I would hit the ball before we stopped playing.
Quick Tag (Mac): Quickly add tags to the current song playing in iTunes with a simple, universal keyboard shortcut and autocompletion for quick tagging. The 23 Best iTunes Add-ons | Lifehacker Australia
The Warriors lost a battle despite outshooting and mostly outplaying their opponents.
In this lesson, learn the basics of playing barre chords.
We were still playing at war — dropping leaflets instead of bombs.
It's often said they're more interested in playing with the wrapping than the gifts. The Sun
The group, composed of four brilliant and accomplished musicians playing the guitar, mandolin, bagpipe, piccolo and violin, will bring their highly original sound to the stage.
At the touch of a button one of the blank monitors blipped to life, displaying a scene that was being picked up by a hidden remote camera.
Vanessa raised hundreds of pounds for the charity by playing requests in exchange for donations to the appeal.
Dolphins have a natural affinity with humans and just being with them, playing with them and touching them, is credited with bringing about wondrous results for sick people.
The three-time world champion only resumed playing last month after a six-month ban on disrepute charges. The Sun
While I'm walking along the beach and eating handfuls of cornflake sand, I encounter a group of envelopes playing horseshoes. Horseshoe Champion
He has been playing championship tennis for three years now.
No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
He has good on-screen chemistry with both actors playing the sons.
Thus, Nietzsche underlines our creative power in playing with masks, in taking up selves only to put them down again.
Let' s go for a walk instead of playing video games.
It never failed to be fascinating reading - the replaying of familiar events and familiar data through the specific lens of organized labor.
He has made derogative remarks, made players uncomfortable playing for him, and is not leading the team in the right direction.
Learn how to use the middle card strategy in playing the card game gin rummy from an expert card player in this free instructional video.
Not one bum track on this album and I was in heaven playing it.
Jools Holland is playing an open-air concert near Tunbridge Wells soon.
In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time.
When it comes to playing debased, self-destructive women, Leigh is the best actress in Hollywood.
The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well
The group built their reputation by playing across the length and breadth of North America.
A compendium of greatest hits, plus a poetic "birl" (spin) from Seamus Heaney, it seems to be modelled on the Burns night, with O'Hagan, a lively novelist and cultural commentator, playing MC. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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 book is a rare collector's edition as it includes an original drawing of Winnie the Pooh in traditional Russian costume playing a balalaika.
I'm playing the clarinet at the moment too. The Sun
The best golf of the day had been produced by the boy champion, Tim Baxter, playing off scratch.
We were always together and always playing truant from school. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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You win less or lose more than you would by playing solo 8 and making the same number of tricks.
To one side of the central playing area is another book with its spine in the air, forming a shelter for six unseen musicians. Times, Sunday Times
Personal digital assistants offer everything, from e-mail, word processing and time and billing to reading e-books and playing games.
Batsmen need to use their feet cleverly when playing on the slightly slower pitches here so that they are in a position to play the ball without mistiming it.
The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
Playing a prominent role in Atayal music is the Jew's harp.
It was a lack of putting touch that cost him the chance of achieving his long-held dream of playing in The Open.
They spent their afternoons playing golf—extremely badly, I may add—around Loch Lomond.
It's not just the flummery - the full-bottomed wigs, men walking backwards and so on - but the way this exercise in constitutional theatre is playing to the wrong audience.
Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
I turned up about half eleven and stayed until quarter to seven that night, and left others still playing.
The only defender with a legitimate excuse is CB Ryan McNeil, who is playing with a soft cast on his fractured forearm.
they spend hours and hours just playing the slots
Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
William Ragsdale, playing the Sheriff oof, playing sheriffs... well, life is short of a small bayou town hagged by what seem to be Biblical plagues. Oh, you're so COOL, Brewster!
Demonstrations of guided missiles, of a patient taking what looks like a Barium swallow in front of a fluoroscope, and the father taking home movies of his child with a video camera and playing them back on his TV all give us pause to remember that whatever good or not-so-good aspects of our present-day lives, we stand on the shoulders of people who were true visionaries more than 50 years ago. Archive 2009-06-01
And stamina while playing a computer may be the deciding factor in this match.
The Illegal Eagles have progressed from playing the small local club circuit to acquiring a reputation for themselves at major concert venues.
Silvi started playing badminton at the age of six when she accompanied her father to his training session.
With a thrill of comprehension Tesla saw what Jo-Beth was displaying to her brother. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The man behind us stopped playing his gusla, as if he understood what had been said. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
In playing the diplomat, has he always spoken truth to power - including the powers within his own ecclesial community? The best path to peace | Savitri Hensman
Holding the rod high whilst playing a fish is often a recipe for disaster, especially when the fish is close to the boat.
It was pointed out that playing nine holes of golf on the morning of the match was not entirely the best preparation. Times, Sunday Times
Corden's playing career ended abruptly when he smashed his knee on his debut for Darlington.
Of course it is circular in the sense that, based on my proffered definition, since intelligence ultimately permeates all aspects of being, what we call sentient beings (life forms) are simply different manifestations of intelligence playing with itself, or as one old text puts it in the title: 'You are the Eyes of the Universe.' Telic Thoughts
His eyebrows beetled, and he slipped into a deep sleep, with the music of Total Package playing in his ears.
Most general breaches that in medal play invoke a two-stroke penalty, such as playing a wrong ball (as Mr. Fowler did in a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup), result in match play in loss of the hole. Can We Have More Match Play?
At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill. David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son
When playing the ultimatum game, be aware that there's a neural basis to economic decision making.
Playing the game fairly means not bending the rules because you feel sorry for someone or cheating because you think your opponent doesn't deserve to win.
Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends.
It opens up a huge playing field for mobile telcos who see the opportunity to offer financial services.
What you get are basically four fun, simple little games, that are great to come back to for the odd five minutes of playing.
But I don't know when they will stop - since the concrete is all under the roof, I wonder if they're playing Jenga with their house. On a no-longer quiet summery Saturday
Not until spring could he stand on uncarpeted floors without his rear legs splaying out in a V. Suddenly paralyzed, Rufus doggedly learns to walk again
For fecks sake not only do i have to update my newly aquired PS3 i now have to update my xbox aswell, Wow im gonna be playing alot of games when i get home seriosuly i updated my PS3 in like 5 min and my xbox usually updates in maybe 1. is that really a problem for some people? Computer And Video Games
You can just imagine the wind howling round outside while everyone crowds into a stone cottage, a fire roaring in the grate and a group of friends simply playing together for the sheer fun of it.
That is how he made us adapt to his playing style. The Sun
The twilight spoof is from a group of youg peeps they are called Evillguana production, the guy playing ed has a blue shirt on in the picture. Twilight Lexicon » M Squared Productions Twilight Parody
Everyone in our office is playing email Scrabble.
But do I relish the idea of playing a character where you're not playing the lead role and where you can turn up and absolutely go crazy?
Playing "catwoman" - in leopard print lingerie with a long tail and cat ears while sitting in a cage. IOL Technology
He did not like the question but you cannot blame fans for getting carried away bearing in mind the way they are playing. The Sun
We would fall asleep listening to my grandparents sitting at the table playing cards or cribbage.
They have traditionally been involved in sports and recreation, playing host to a variety of activities.
The keen golfer knew he needed an experienced playing partner. Times, Sunday Times
But the younger sister was an actress even then; loud, raucous and playing to the crowd.
So we got an open-top double-decker bus and drove round playing on the roof. Times, Sunday Times
She caught students red-handed with their parts entwined frequently, and the rest of the student body talked about sex as if it was just as normal as attending a baseball game or playing video games. Daniel P. Malito: The Scarlet e-Letter
A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela now had ballplayers playing for major-league teams.
At the time, his playing impressed me with its discipline, control, intelligence, and gorgeous sound, all directly in the service of the music.
It is not about playing it out from the back and weaving magical patterns on the way up the pitch. The Sun
The company was playing with fire yesterday by spending time reassuring investors worried about the dividend. Times, Sunday Times
Playing the leader of a four-member commando team and wearing a microphone headset, you could issue verbal orders.
Inside the home, residents were playing bingo. Times, Sunday Times
There is also the highly suggestive definitation of cartomancy - literally from the French carte card + mancie -mancy: fortune-telling by the use of playing cards. Archive 2008-02-01
I remember talking to a former playing colleague of yours at Preston, right-winger Les Campbell.
Playing football is all I want to do and playing football in England is perfect for me.
Whenever a dad plays, there is usually a mom playing, who may not realize she is a silent partner.
It sounds preferable to having kids locked away playing alone.
After seeking advice from Norman, his playing partner, Garcia took a drop, moving away from the sign.
In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
We must Starkey for the provision of adequate playing time, he is like our sixth starter.
I think that your role playing games have got the most difficult final level bosses.
This friend - who in an ironic twist of fate, appears in the film not as a gambler, but as the casino manager - would sneak down to the casino, after hours, and start playing with feverous intensity.
Lying on my straw mat, 1 heard the music box playing that song 1 had grown to hate so much. 1 beard Miss Banner's door open, then clow 1 put my hands over my ears. The secret sense
What is more risky, a live orchestra playing wrong notes or a gremlin getting into the electronics?
The ",nq" suffix here just asks the expression evaluator to remove the quotes when displaying the final value nq = no quotes. Site Home
We were playing outside in the garden this afternoon when there was an almighty roar in the sky.
The development of a leaf involves a complex pattern of cell division and cell elongation, with cell elongation playing a central part in the expansion of the leaf blade.
There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful. The Sun
Playing a character so different from herself was a challenge.
Whatif a software provider createdbotting softwarethat was useful in playing multiple games, including Star Wars Galaxies, in which scripting and botting were part of the game? Third Party Beneficiaries and Other Fantastical Beasts in Virtual Worlds
I was playing in the championship, but I felt we were in different tournaments altogether.
I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch.
Belliard's October success hasn't surprised manager Tony La Russa, who said his second baseman is accustomed to playing in pressure situations because he does so every winter in the Dominican Republic. Belliard plays up to Cards' expectations
Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns was playing on a cheap Samsung, Olga Borodina and Dmitri Hvorostovsky singing. CHAMELEON
You know what I mean, those blue cubes that you use to chalk up your cue when you're playing snooker or pool in an attempt to make it look like you know what you're doing.
They have been playing together for a long time, have a lot of experience and are a skilful side.
So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
After playing the part for over 20 years, she was eventually written out .
She looked out of the window at the children playing beneath.
I was feeling the exhaustion keenly - but not enough to make a complete ass of myself during choir, which inched by like a violist playing Paganini caprices.
The days of playing unglamorous locations like the South Morang Hotel are all over.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
The brothers are now working on a view of the cultural scene in a palace - the raja playing the sitar, the rani dancing.
But I'd look between the benches at young master Charles on the playing field and think, that's where I should be.
The question McAtamney needs to ask himself is what can parents or minders do to occupy themselves when the children are playing safely in the Playbarn?
In this instance, the fact that they will be playing a team they know very little about could work to their disadvantage.
I'm very excited about the possibility of playing for England's first team.
I am, for example, as suspicious of authors in tweedy jackets or carrying pipes as I am of professors with elbow patches - they seem to be playing a role that shows how they envision themselves as Author, rather than beign who they are. Archive 2008-04-01
It wasn't the faux avuncularity we've come to expect from Stewart on "The Daily Show" but there, of course, he's playing a role. October 2004
French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
Traditionally, white flannels are worn when playing cricket.
Because some of them outplayed my team that's been playing. The Sun
Playing card games is not my idea of fun.
Polak is a powerful presence in the lead, displaying remarkable physical and emotional range, while Treasa Levasseur is a standout in both comic and tragic turns.
Since he's everybody's official bigmouth, he can have the pleasure of playing switchboard for you club people from here on out. STONE CITY
The team is / are not playing very well this season.
Another rebounding/defensive big man is all this team needs to seriously compete for a shot at the Finals. chris anderson needs to start playing with a chip on his shoulder, again ... he's too concerned with being "birdman". Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
With over 25 stands displaying their beautiful range of exquisite handmade crafts, the fair is sure to attract a large gathering
The zombies clawed at the motorcade for a while, but you know how it is when you're playing to an empty hall - your performance is bound to lack conviction. Courageous park police save Lincoln Memorial from zombies
His playing career was curtailed after he injured his neck when a scrum collapsed in 1980 but that did not end his involvement with rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Hanuman loved playing the heretic as he loved playing chess. THE BROKEN GOD
Playing for England provided yet bigger highs and lows.
We have a “game box” and I love sitting with a cup of coffee, watching our children and grandchildren playing board games, working puzzles or playing Uno with the cards Gary, who is blind, has brailed. Christmas Magic
Say the word geisha and images of beautiful kimono-clad women serving green tea, reciting poetry and playing classical instruments may spring to mind. News On Japan
Iwas taught a harsh lesson in my early days at Liverpool that stood me in good stead for the rest of my playing career. Times, Sunday Times
I had been sick with glandular fever, so I was playing as a libero, which is a position I don't usually play, so it wouldn't be as physical and I wouldn't burn out," she said. Wimmera Mail Times - Front Page
He would never say where he had got it from, though wherever it was he'd been, it was rumoured he'd taken his marked playing cards and his gun with him.
Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
The full-court configuration has a 4,850 sq.ft. playing surface covered by metal roof and guttered to collect an estimated 90,000 liters of water per year. Cameron Sinclair: House of Rain: Kenya's First Net-Positive Sports Facility (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Among the protesters and war veterans proudly displaying their medals was Aubrey Rose.
I sprained my wrist playing squash.
As soon as someone spots a gaijin playing, they'll join in and kick your butt into the middle of next Tuesday with a secret character wearing a nappy.
He averaged the least amount of playing time he had since his second season.
But he was built of loyalty and unsuspicion; and though for a mere second a fear assailed him that the old lady was about to charge Reuben with playing his daughter false, he scouted the fancy hotly. Aunt Rachel
Since I refuse to believe that the author does not know or realize this, I am forced to conclude that he is simply a verbal masturbator playing to some other gallery. The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism:
So time went by very fast, we were now playing outdoor games like tig, hide and seek and marbles or ‘Taws’, as we knew them.
For a man whose playing career was characterised by dogged resilience and bloody-minded determination, the manager cuts a very different figure.
Some had wondered why he was playing this format at all given his erraticism off the tee. Times, Sunday Times
He examined in detail its toxic effects, displaying an impressive grasp of prevailing medical theories. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
There is something intensely companionable about playing with three others in a confined space; a companionableness which extends to giving opponents a fair sight of the ball without intervention of a referee.
His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
I can imagine a string quartet playing here. Times, Sunday Times
We took a walk up the street and Capa just stopped and joined a game of cribbage that some fishermen were playing, and next there would be a girl, and he joked 'Where's your boyfriend?' Rare Robert Capa print in auction of news photography treasures
Gaston's real story involves what seems to be an accidental death of a childhood friend during a homoerotic role-playing game.
Even without flowers, she says, variegated lamiums are a spectacular foil for hellebores, especially with the white flecks of the ground cover playing off the darker-flowering hellebores.
Of Oaxaca's twenty-seven churches, by far the most opulent is the Santo Domingo de Guzmán, built by Indian artisans in the 16th and 17th centuries and displaying much gold leaf. Oaxaca: a festive city
Displaying the temporary disagreements to the public would hamper communication of the consensus.
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.
I'm not going to risk my neck playing rugby with you!
He has been playing championship tennis for three years now.
We did see part of the battle of the Yalu from the outer walls of Wiju, "he said, but added," From then on the Japanese treatment of the correspondents with the first army grew stricter -- When I left Yokohama homeward bound, all the other correspondents patiently playing the game according to Japanese etiquette, were still publicly dining and privily blaspheming Tokyo. JACK LONDON'S WAR
Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight. For todays active man
There was also an ancient-looking horn and an "erhu" -- a two-string instrument which produced the most heart-wrenching sounds, and the "yanqin", a string instrument so beautiful and powerful that I thought there were twenty different instruments playing at once! Mao's Last Dancer
Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel. Success A Novel
I didn't want another season in the reserves or just playing cup games. The Sun
With women finding themselves pushing their way up the social ladder, husbands are now okay with playing the perfect foil.
He specializes in West African percussion and will be playing with a few friends of his.
The factory was soon playing host to 100, 000 visitors a year.

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