How to use "player" in a sentence

I turn on my CD player and listen to a soft, slow song by Phish, one of my favourite bands.

And suddenly I was in the final, playing with a Russian, Honest Ivan, the best player in the world

'Forrest,' said Mr Tribble, 'You're a wonderful chess player, but I never know what's going to happen next! Here's half of the money that you've won - it's almost five thousand dollars

'He wants to be a football player.'

'Your Mom tells me that you want to be a football player.'

"Oh, that." And the boy pulls something out of his pocket, and Owen sees that it is his mp3 player.

No, you don't need that today," he repeats, and he takes the mp3 player from the boy's hands, and he tries to avoid the angry look in the boy's dark eyes.

But she does not want to listen, and she takes her MP3 player from her bag and puts her headphones in.

The CD player and an accompanying AM-FM tuner and amplifier were stacked on one of the nightstands.

Every player at the table groaned, and they all had comments to make about the unlikely possibility that they might win anything from this dealer.

"Sometimes a player gets so interested in the game that he's virtually hypnotized by it

Someone said, "Shoot the piano player."

Later, there were other great sportswomen, like American tennis player Billie Jean King.

As soon as she hit the ball, Billie Jean knew that she wanted to be a tennis player

This taught her that being a tennis player was more difficult for girls.

When she won the US Open tournament in 1972, she received 15,000 dollars less than the men's top player, Ilie Nastase

Bobby Riggs was a top men's tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s

He won the Wimbledon men's tournament in 1939, and he was the world number one tennis player in 1941, 1946 and 1947

He played the Australian player Margaret Court