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play - use in sentences
Object
- role: A chapter on the role played by Pope John Paul II in the final years of the Cold War would also have been welcome.
- game: These were very good for playing the war games which obsessed us all.
- part: Actors will be flown in from Holland to play the part of the Dutch team.
- football: There are some youths outside playing football in a 'No Ball Zone ' .
- guitar: He loved to dance, play the guitar or ukulele; he was a real actor.
- host: From the earliest days of the moving image, the Empire played host to the technological advances of cinema.
Converse of object
- write: His first play written with Esme Wynne was written in 1917.
Adjective modifier
- fair: So fair play, he's self recorded and written a pretty reasonable middle of the road album.
- outdoor: Outdoor play Weather permitting; children are encouraged to take some ' fresh air ' .
Modifies a noun
- sudoku: Play sudoku online, play sudoku puzzle for fun.. .
- area: There's also a play area for the children.
- equipment: PLAY AREAS The children's play areas provide a wide range of play equipment including an adventure play frame.
Noun used with modifier
- role: You can find alternative answers to the role play tasks in the Comment section of each exercise.
- adventure: PLAY AREAS The children's play areas provide a wide range of play equipment including an adventure play frame.
- game: A seamless movement from training through introduction of story elements to full game play took careful planning.
- morality: Instead of producing a drama-documentary of events, Spielberg manages a limp morality play which becomes very tiresome.
Preposition: in
- league: There are currently four teams playing in the Jamaican league.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: This would be an awesome kite for playing around in waves.
- along: I knew he had played along with the British, but this was a ploy - or was it?
- on: So, which wheel do you think this columnist would recommend you to play on?
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