How to Use play the game in a Sentence

play the game

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  • Among the greatest of his gifts was playing the game forever as a child.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • They’re paid to play the game and not get involved in ownership decisions.
    — Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Fans who play the game on two and three consecutive days can receive bonus points and rewards badges.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Taylor has been schooling La Trice on how to play the game, and then came up with a big Veto win this week.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Every high school football coach is expected to know how to teach student-athletes to play the game as safely as possible.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Also on the first episode, Larry David and daughter Cazzie David play the game.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 July 2026
  • Getting a digital copy of a game works simply by inserting a compatible disc and installing and playing the game.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 1 July 2026
  • Many fans have been playing the game for years and aren't necessarily into a radical change on such a huge mechanic like catching passes.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • What’s more, playing the game consistently can get your family in the habit of sharing more intimate feelings with one another.
    — Parents, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The concourse at the stadium is packed with people standing and watching TVs playing the game, adding to the sweltering heat.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026
  • Duff later played the game with Scherer, at one point eating a concoction including ingredients like oyster sauce and crickets.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
  • The problem, however, was that Messi was even better, on his way to winning his first Ballon d’Or and playing the game, or at least seeing it, in the future.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026
  • The first season of the American version of The Traitors will be remembered for Survivor star Cirie Fields’s master class in how to play the game.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Christie said Westbrook ranks among the best point guards to ever play the game after Westbrook passed Steve Nash for fifth among the NBA’s all-time leaders in assists.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Schneider attempted to play the game under protest, believing that the Red Sox had to appeal the timing play at the plate, but teams are no longer able to play under protest after a 2020 rule change.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Reid said Fields would play the game’s first 1 1/2 quarters, and rookie Garrett Nussmeier would play the same amount before turning it over to fourth-team quarterback Chris Oladokun.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Spain’s talisman was Lamine Yamal, its nineteen-year-old right winger, who plays the game with bleached tips, implausible speed, and nonchalance, but its superego was Rodri, the team’s central midfielder and captain.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Beep baseball traces its origins to engineer Charlie Fairbanks, who in 1964 modified a softball by inserting an electronic beeping device so that blind children could play the game, the release said.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Who better to carry this underdog spirit than our birthright-citizen striker, or Weston McKennie, a military brat born in Texas who learned to play the game while his father was stationed abroad, in Germany?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
  • Nelson-Ododa, who turns 26 this month, is on the threshold of stardom midway through her fifth season in The W, her eighth playing the game in Connecticut, but obviously her potential will come to full bloom in another arena, another state.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026

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