How to use "play" in a sentence

But then some boys hit me, and my Mom didn't want me to play with them again

I tried to play with girls, but they all ran away from me.

'Do you ever play football?' he asked.

'I see other people playing, but I don't play and they never ask me to play with them.'

But I knew that they really wanted me to play football

I began to play football with the high school team, and Coach Fellers helped me

He broke his foot in football practice and couldn't play in the game

I began to play.

After several minutes, Bubba was getting really excited and saying, 'Good, good, good!' Then he asked, 'Where did you learn to play like that?'

'I saw you play football yesterday,' she said

'I play in a little group

'Forrest, where did you learn to play that thing?'

Well, after that, Jenny asked me to play with their group every Friday, and paid me $25 every time!

His foot got too bad to play football, and he had to leave the university

Then they began to play - and they were loud

I had my harmonica in my pocket, so I took it out and started to play.

Spring and summer went by, and I continued to play my harmonica with the group

I told her how I felt - I was sorry about the girl, and I didn't want to play in the group without her

And it was in the jungle that I met Big Sam - a man who taught me to play chess

Like I said before, Big Sam taught me how to play chess when I was in the jungle

'Where did you learn to play chess?' he asked.

'He has to play chess in a tournament tomorrow,' said Mr Tribble

Mr Tribble and I got there early, and I had to play chess all day.

So after I finished my cup of coffee, I took out my harmonica and began to play

He put his arms round me for a second, then went off to play with Sue again.

This apron had an important part to play in the murder.

With a little laugh, she jumped off her mother's lap and ran to play with the two girls on the swing.

They left the doll on the floor and went off to play with a baby cat

She turned her back on the room and began to play with it, hoping that no one could see what she was doing

There is no stopping now, so I pull the small stereo from one of the black bags on my shoulder, and I press play.

Then the band starts to play a waltz, and Eleanor looks at Edward

In reality, however, all he does is press 'play' on the recording device and write down a few notes about when the judge enters, when the prosecution or defence speaks, or what the final verdict is

We play golf together

Or maybe play a computer game or watch television.

You see, Jimmy could play cards.

Poker, blackjack, rummy: you name the game and Jimmy could play it, though he especially liked poker

You can either play the game right: you play it straight

This way you enter the competitions, you play your best, and you play by the rules

That was when he decided he was good enough and clever enough and lucky enough to play at my table

A competition where only the best of the best get to play

But I can play cards

"Idiot! I always take the aces out of the pack and make sure that I get the kings," he says, and he goes back into his casino to play another game

"My brother and I used to play with the fruit

So we used to play tricks with them: put them in people's clothes

He held on to a dolphin's tail and it began to play with him, pulling him along much faster than he could swim

"Your grandmother told you how she and her brother used the fruit to play tricks on people

When we're not learning, we play sports, and they're all great..."

I had to play cards with Mrs Van Hopper that afternoon, but I was still happy

An Electronic Battleship game had stood on that table, as Danny had left it, ready for play, but the easel had toppled into it and knocked it to the floor.

She was a sweet old woman, feisty and independent-minded but not the type to play cruel pranks.

But there's a lot of sense in what Joel says, so I'm going to try to play it cool."

"The guy sits down to play cards and gets so involved he loses track of time, which is, of course, exactly what the management wants him to do

She said, "I didn't make up that story about someone breaking into the house just so you could play the strong, reliable man to my weak, frightened female

I'll play up the mother-suffering-distress angle, and the court ought to be sympathetic."

In those days, it had been easy to play the hunter

He had never expected to play that game again

The jukebox began to play a mournful Alan Jackson song.

Don't forget he used to play it himself."

Dombey, who clearly did not share his associate's compulsion to play hero, remained docile in his chair

'The Protheroes have invited me to play tennis today

'Dennis said he was going to play tennis at your place

Tell her I've gone to play tennis

'Griselda', I said, 'has gone to play tennis.'

He won most of the games, and when we did not want to play any more I went back up on the roof.

As they play with each other's bodies on the back seat of the car, the old Sea shuts his eyes, bored

They said, "People cannot have a television or play music." In January 2008, the Taliban said, "Girls cannot go to school."

She asked her father what sport she could play

A few months later, Billie Jean's friend took her to play tennis for the first time

She began to play at Long Beach, and she used a racquet she bought with money she got from little jobs.

Then, Billie Jean agreed to play him.

But she did not just play tennis; she also made great progress for women's equality and for women's pay in sport

You must play the guitar and sing love songs