How to use "played" in a sentence

At first when I was growing up, I played with everybody

It was good news: if I played in their football team, there was a place for me in school there.

When it got late, he told me to take the harmonica with me, and I played it for a long time in my room.

I was really happy, and I went and sat under a tree and played all day.

They played for about an hour, and I was lying back with my eyes closed, listening happily

There was still a lot of shooting going on, but I played a song

She was now playing in a group called The Broken Eggs, and they played two nights each week at a place called the Hodaddy Club near Harvard University

It went well, and I played with them every night after that.

I played all that day, and the next

I played two songs - and a man walked past and threw some money into my empty coffee cup! I played two more songs, and soon the cup was half full of money!

They made her get up before dawn every day and do all the dirty jobs around the house, while Eponine and Azelma wore pretty clothes and played with dolls

After hugging and kissing their mother, they sat on the floor by the fire and played with a doll

When Owen was a boy of fourteen, he played rugby or football every day, he ran to the school in the village just for fun, and he spent every Sunday in the forests with his dad.

Sala went to her own tiny room, and played her ultranet messages

"I thought so." He played with her fingers, matching them against his

Sala played with the plate of food in front of her; she couldn't eat a thing.

The band played and people danced

Nickel duchesses always played the cheap slot machines - nickels and dimes in the old days, now quarters - never the dollar- or five-dollar slots

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

A flickering, nervous scowl played across her face, alternating with a tentative smile that appeared when the audience laughed, applauded, or gasped in surprise.

Ice rattled in glasses as gamblers drank while they played

"I've played your game

The jukebox played a country tune by Garth Brooks, and the music shared the air with the delicious aromas of fried eggs, bacon, and sausages

Danny was barely old enough to understand the rules, but he'd never played before

He knows how the game is played

Afterwards we drank wine and played cards

We played cards after supper

At that time, golf and tennis were two of the sports that women played

But only twenty-two women played in those Games, out of the 997 people from nineteen countries

When she was twelve years old, she played at a tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, but Billie Jean could not be in the group picture of young tennis players

He played the Australian player Margaret Court