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    Use "playing" in a sentence

    playing example sentences

    playing


    1. be it whilst they are painting or playing


    2. A different tactic would be to praise the child playing nicely and ignore


    3. She didn’t like that he was going after a killer, and sometimes they would fight about it while I was in the other room, playing with Legos


    4. With my memory, I find myself playing this game quite regularly


    5. The times that you’re playing games, watching television or any other time waster could be used to exercise, to read a book, to play with your kids or learn a new skill


    6. But if you are using your time playing games, going on social media, watching useless


    7. He wondered where she was now, playing in the snows of Kugenzglaw? Or did she experience one winter and head right back down to her old place down Sinbara point? What if she'd come up to the Wild Catch last Nightday?


    8. · In case it is essential to ignore pain, may be temporarily, say while playing a game or attending to a more serious patient, remember that beyond a certain time this could lead to serious body injury to you


    9. Even if you’ve been an avid golfer, a fiend for tennis, loved playing hockey or zooming downhill on skis, you can’t assume you’ve retained your sense of balance


    10. ‘Who?’ I asked, playing for time

    11. · Know the main events of your grandchildren's lives--not only what sports they are playing and when they have days off from school, but also their likes, dislikes, successes, and failures


    12. This whole world is nothing but kids playing


    13. He watched the other gods laughing and playing


    14. That should be him laughing and playing


    15. Away in the distance, I can hear some music playing


    16. I find myself staring at the phone once I have put it down … what the hell is Dan playing at? Standing staring at my house for hours on end every evening? Is that legal? Thinking about it, I suppose there isn’t a law against it if he is standing on his property … would it count as stalking?


    17. The children are playing


    18. After playing with the native data system only a few hours, she already gave Ava's perspective a lot more consideration than she would have just a year ago, well actually a hundred forty five years ago


    19. Everyone stops playing


    20. Whatever it was, it soured her on playing with cherubs for the evening, and for quite a time thereafter

    21. ‘Do you realise we have been playing this for half an hour


    22. I thought the other team was playing dirty by trying to get away with as much as possible


    23. Before Jimmy went up to the plate, the coach told him to bunt down the third base line because the third baseman was playing way back, protecting the line


    24. As I was playing an elderly woman complete with grey wig, I was not overly flattered – even Emma, my daughter, didn’t recognise me in that outfit!’


    25. Andy is playing Jim


    26. Dave is playing my husband in the play – he’s ever so nice – he’s done a lot of this sort of thing


    27. "Wow," he said as he came into view and observed the last houri he had been playing with


    28. He was still playing with the frayed edge of his shirt cuff


    29. He knew how the cheral code for that behavior worked, that probably took a lot of the fun out of playing with them for him


    30. Yet, I keep on playing the role of the match-maker, hoping that Dimitri will eventually be disappointed from Mandy's frigidity and notice me

    31. A small spiral bound notepad and a short, stubby pencil, just like the ones my father might use to mark his score when playing golf at Ouzai


    32. ‘Good God!’ I exclaimed, truly stunned … the bastard was playing with her at the same time was he! ‘She’s only about twenty isn’t she?’


    33. As for the rest, the week in Amarynthos has proved to be really boring, since we've spent most of our time playing cards or chatting with the old crocks


    34. He wasn't playing it however, his mind was far from there, the words of the Haadij still rang in his ears


    35. Whoever was playing God with him here, it was one of those souls


    36. He spent much of his time playing again, mostly training in his adventure parks, but he often stopped and reviewed all his alerts


    37. How would they know it was me? Might they not think that the guards had cottoned-on to them and were playing a joke? Were they even now expecting the doors to slam open and the night air to be filled with the dull thud of fists and boots and wooden stocks?


    38. Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?


    39. We resigned ourselves to playing a waiting game, during which Menachem told me about the vagaries of his life, about how he never quite made any decisions, but through a word here and a mutual friend there, he had just gone with the flow


    40. Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship

    41. God isn’t limited to knowing what will happen and thus we are automatons just playing out history according to how God wrote it


    42. He was, anyway, the fittest and fastest of the assembled pre-season breakers, playing at centre with all of the modern power and grace required of a rugger boy


    43. Stu hoped that the place would be full of locals, bewhiskered old men rattling their rosaries and maybe playing backgammon, with their wives, those little old bewhiskered crones huddled in a corner chattering away noisily


    44. ‘What the hell are you playing at?’


    45. She told me that she was playing with an ouija board, and since then had been seeing visions of demons and ghosts


    46. that my son and I enjoy playing together


    47. He was cuddly and playing gently with her hair


    48. the process of playing with the Universe while you


    49. ’ He said slowly as if to an idiot, a smile playing around his mouth


    50. He was playing with her hair, something he still loved to do














































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    Synonyms for "playing"

    playing acting performing playacting enactment personification dramatisation dramatization portrayal impersonation

    "playing" definitions

    the act of playing a musical instrument


    the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation


    the performance of a part or role in a drama