Use playing in a sentence
Sentences starting with playing
- Playing it so low on a chap you like! [11]
- Playing on the harp afforded her special pleasure, and Frau Traut fancied she could understand her thoughts while doing so. [10]
- Playing us for Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn! [5]
Sentences ending with playing
- He was playing the game that has baffled all men, the game of eluding destiny; and, like all men, he must break his heart in the playing. [11]
- As they approached the crossroads of the bridge, his voice, clear and sonorous, could be heard commanding the Orange band to cease playing. [11]
- He would repeat, that it was the fitting if not the indispensable adjunct to the consummation of the great game we are playing. [7]
- But you don't stop playing! [5]
- Gabord and I stood there, not speaking, for both were thinking of the dangerous game now playing. [11]
- There was a rapid patter of bare feet, and an unseen hand opened the door into the huntsmen's room, from which came the clear sounds of a balalayka on which someone, who was evidently a master of the art, was playing. [2]
- He fell out of an empty flat-boat, where he was playing. [5]
- She moved forward more swiftly to the time of the lively dancing tune which the city pipers were playing. [10]
- Why the dog maintains my dignity better than I do, and he does not seem altogether to like the architect's part I am playing. [10]
- I am sure it was you playing. [9]
Short sentences using playing
- The countess was playing patience. [2]
Sentences containing playing two or more times
- In the evening we had music; the professor playing on the piano, his two daughters, Mrs. Conybeare and her unmarried sister, singing, and a young lady playing the violin. [6]
- The band was playing, and, for a ship-band, playing very well, the ballet music of Delibes' 'Sylvia'. [11]
- Nothing is so beautiful as a rose diamond with the light playing through it, except that uncostly thing which is just like it--wavy sea-water with the sunlight playing through it and striking a white-sand bottom. [5]
More example sentences with the word playing in them
- There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
- It would delight you to see some of them playing Indian when surrounded by the wonders and improvements of the Old World. [4]
- M. Fille had wondered much that night of June at the listless manner and listless playing of Carmen Barbille. [11]
- Already he had won everything the other possessed, and was now playing for his dinner. [11]
- They are playing with toys we have done with for whole-generations. [6]
- Yes; playing cribbage with herself at the table. [12]
- I don't see why dancing isn't just as good an accomplishment as playing the harp in a Greek dress. [4]
- The man at whose bidding this merrymaking was held stood in a corner watching with folded arms, and none to look at him might know that he was playing for a stake. [9]
- Wasn't it natural, when you were playing the devil with yourself, that I should step in and give you a hand? [11]
- His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. [2]
- One bright morning, when Nick and I were playing cards, we heard some one mounting the stairs, and to my surprise and embarrassment I beheld Monsieur de St. Gre emerging on the gallery. [9]
- The second time, when Holgate came below to his engine, Dicky was there playing with a Farshoot dog. [11]
- Mandeville and I were talking of the unknown people, one rainy night by the fire, while the Mistress was fitfully and interjectionally playing with the piano-keys in an improvising mood. [4]
- Some of them were sipping wine, others were playing cards, others chess, other groups were chatting together, and many were smoking cigarettes while they waited for the coming duels. [5]
- You see you were playing with marked cards, and that is embarrassing. [11]
- Well, while they were gradually playing out, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder what had become of Marco. [5]
- But ere long we were playing with our dollies again right happily. [10]
- And many days we spent in the wood, playing at hunting game--a poor enough amusement for me, and one that Nick soon tired of. [9]
- If we do, we shall be likely to sit in some delicious place, listening to the band playing in the "Restauration," and to the nightingales, till the moon comes up. [4]
- Under that enchantment we had forgotten the object for which we came out.--Tell me, my darling, do you remember exactly what the necklace was like that you and Mary were playing with this afternoon? [10]
- Did y' ever watch her at meetin' playing with posies and looking round all the time of the long prayer? [6]
- When little Gordon was two years old, 'he was playing horse on the bed, where I had left my "little book. [5]
- When little Gordon was two years old, "he was playing horse on the bed, where I had left my 'little book. [5]
- How marvellously well was Thalia playing her comedy! [9]
- He thought it was summer, and he was playing, all alone, in the fair meadow called Goodman's Fields, when a dwarf only a foot high, with long red whiskers and a humped back, appeared to him suddenly and said, "Dig by that stump. [5]
- By nature he was respectful; but the politician now was playing a dirty game, and he himself might fight without gloves, if needed. [11]
- Leicester, who now was playing the game as though it were a hazard for states and kingdoms, read the increasing trouble in her face; and waited confidently for the moment when in desperation she would lose her self- control and go to the Queen. [11]
- Sir Kenelm Digby was playing his fantastic tricks with the Sympathetic powder, and teaching Governor Winthrop, the second, how to cure fever and ague, which some may like to know. [3]
- Here a wine-skin was passed from hand to hand, there a joint was roasting on a wooden spit; farther on a party were throwing dice for the booty they had won, or playing at morra. [10]
- Fact is, it was one of those deals when you can make a million, in a straight enough game; but it comes out of another man--one, maybe, that you don't know; who is playing just the same as you are. [11]
- The Tall Master was now playing a wonderful thing, half dance, half carnival; but with that Call still beating through it. [11]
- For Kutuzov this was mathematically clear, as it is that if when playing draughts I have one man less and go on exchanging, I shall certainly lose, and therefore should not exchange. [2]
- Her musical talent was considerable, and she devoted every leisure hour to playing on stringed instruments and singing. [10]
- His fresh cheek was bent to the brown, delicate wood, and he was playing to his sister the air of the undying chanson, "Je vais mourir pour ma belle reine. [11]
- The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. [2]
- There is a very loose primary law in this State, purposely kept loose by the politicians of the Northeastern Railroads, in order that they may play such tricks on decent men as they have been playing on me. [9]
- She was a venerable rack- heap, and a fraud to boot; for she was playing herself for personal property, whereas the good honest dirt was so thickly caked all over her that she was righteously taxable as real estate. [5]
- He seemed, as usual, distrait, betraying no curiosity as to the object of my call, his lean, brown fingers playing with the newspapers on his lap. [9]
- And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate of the schoolyard instead of playing with his comrades. [5]
- As they came upon the bridge they were playing a gross paraphrase of The Marseillaise. [11]
- His mettle was up, he was not the Reverend William Rufus Holly, missionary, but Billy Rufus, the champion cricketer, the sportsman playing a long game. [11]
- The crowd drew up to the large table, at which sat gray-haired or bald seventy-year-old magnates, uniformed and besashed almost all of whom Pierre had seen in their own homes with their buffoons, or playing boston at the clubs. [2]
- The older labour unions were accused by the strikers of playing the employers' game, and thus grew to be hated even more than the "capitalists. [9]
- And then the uncharitable gossip went on, that there was the Count de l'Auney, and that Mrs. Mavick was playing the one off against the other. [4]
- Then his thoughts turned again to the man who was playing "Pagliacci. [11]
- They had, in truth, the manner of playing at fashion and elegance as in a stage comedy. [4]
- Can it be true that there can be no more playing with life, that now I am grown up, that on me now lies a responsibility for my every word and deed? [2]
- We should have to sit together now when in company, or people would notice; but it would not be good politics for me to be playing equality with him when there was no necessity for it. [5]
- The rector turned to me with a smile of cynical amusement playing over his features. [9]
- There's no difference to me 'twixt making your feet handy and clever and full of music, and playing with your fingers on the piano or on a melodeon at a meeting. [11]
- In my desire to look like that excellent character I have dressed for the character; I have been playing a part. [5]
- I slipped up to bed, feeling ruther blue, on accounts of the thing playing out that way after I had took so much trouble and run so much resk about it. [5]
- In the mean time, our young Doctor is playing truant oftener than ever. [6]
- During the whole time that "King Lear" was playing the curtain was never down two minutes at any one time. [5]
- I found a ticket for the theatre where an American actor--our biggest actor today--was playing, and I tried to sell it outside the door of the theatre where they were crowding to see him. [11]
- Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
- At first the thought of the great stake for which she was playing in terms of currency, with the head of Jim's father on every note, was much with her. [11]
- It seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army itself, rejoicing at the Emperors' approach, had naturally burst into music. [2]
- I know a thing or so--what's the use of playing peek-a-boo? [11]
- But no--what was there strange in the man being a Romany and playing the fiddle? [11]
- Why, of course there could be no real connection; the man was an impostor, a base impostor, playing upon the credulities of a secluded village. [11]
- But now call them, (they are playing in the garden), and we will tell them of the new friend they are to gain through you. [10]
- Then one of them took me to one side and said: "Now look here, Johnny, it's no use you playing softly wid us. [5]
- It rather took the wind out of the stable-keeper, and set a most ammoniacal fellow, who stood playing with a currycomb, grinning at his expense. [6]
- On Twelfth Street the sun is shining, drums are beating, and bands are playing, and bright aides dashing hither and thither on spirited chargers. [9]
- Presently I heard the spinet playing softly, and the words of that air came out of my heart from long ago. [9]
- As he left the salon, the band was playing a tune that made him close his eyes, as though against something he would not see. [11]
- We sat up the rest of the night playing cribbage and keeping a sharp lookout for the enemy. [5]
- Honora looked at the plush rocking-chair, the yellow-and-red carpet, the inevitable ice-water on the marble-topped table, and the picture of a lady the shape of a liqueur bottle playing tennis in the late eighties, and sighed. [9]
- Tilted pensively against the piano, a guitar--guitar capable of playing the Spanish Fandango by itself, if you give it a start. [5]
- But I am the only person who has noticed this; everybody here thinks He is playing the game for this side, and for this side only. [5]
- I suppose it's the laboratory that attracts me here, as it did my father, playing with the ancient forces of the world in these Arcadian surroundings--Arcady without beauty or Arcadians. [11]
- After six rubbers the general got up, saying that it was no use playing like that, and Pierre was released. [2]
- It isn't playing the game-- do you think so, messieurs? [11]
- Is that playing the game after the rules-- I ask you? [11]
- It was probably the first time he had ever tried the delicate social art of playing with fire of this sort. [11]
- When they reached the drawing-room, Marion was seated at the piano, playing a rhapsody of Raff's, and Mrs. Armour and Lali were seated side by side. [11]
- A table in the corner, where Lula Chandos had insisted on playing bridge, was covered with scattered cards and some bills, a decanter of whiskey, two soda bottles, and two glasses. [9]
- As they lifted the casket, Paine began playing on the orchestrelle Schubert's "Impromptu," which was Jean's favorite. [5]
- She went to the berth where he lay, the reflected light from without playing weirdly on his face, and smoothed the pillow gently. [11]
- I felt sure that while she did not wish me for a lover, she was not averse to my playing the devoted cavalier, who should give all, while she should give nothing. [11]
- Can it be that the hotel is playing anything on us? [5]
- And the fact that she was playing with real fire, that this was a duel with the buttons off, lent a piquancy and zest to the pastime which it had hitherto lacked. [9]
- It was then that he discovered that the prisoners' band in front was playing "Dixie. [9]
- If he knows that an army of his dollars is playing at fox- and-geese, he'll not make eyes at Lady Lawless this way--little ass. [11]
- He rose, Gaston thanked him for the meeting, and was about to go, when the Prime Minister, tapping his shoulder kindly, said: "Mr. Belward, you are not playing to the rules of the game. [11]
- But it's more than mere playing safe--my instinct, I mean. [9]
- He is richer than I am now, and at this moment he's playing a hard game straight at several interests of mine. [11]
- Now, Edith, do tell Jack instead of playing tennis and canoeing all day he ought to help. [9]
- She spent hours teaching and playing with little Fay. [13]
- A pedestrian passed--the teacher whom I had offended by playing all sorts of pranks during his French lesson. [10]
- Every woman was supposed to be playing a part behind a mask. [4]
- Even now its strings gave forth a glorious tone; by degrees he began to rejoice in his own playing, and music soothed his excitement, as it had often done before. [10]
- And all the storekeepers have gone on picnics in their automobiles, or else they're playing golf. [9]
- We had to stop playing finally because Dan got to sleeping fifteen minutes between the counts and paying no attention to his marking. [5]
- Always, always, he stood alone, whatever the moment might be, leaving her nothing to do--" playing his own game with his own weapons," as he had once put it. [11]
- While we were still on very high ground, and before the descent toward Argentie`re began, we looked up toward a neighboring mountain-top, and saw exquisite prismatic colors playing about some white clouds which were so delicate as to almost resemble gossamer webs. [5]
- Why does he stand playing upon the meaning of words and quibbling around the edges of the evidence? [7]
- On our great stage we are playing a piece of mingled tragedy and comedy, with what denouement we cannot yet say. [4]
- I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. [5]
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