How to Use play it cool in a Sentence

play it cool

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• Corry tried her best to play it cool.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
• Of course the mood was that of a hundred jittery fans trying to play it cool.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
• The venue enforces a strict no-camera policy, so even though you’ll be tempted to take a video, play it cool.
  — Roger Kisby, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
• His Chiefs teammates came on the field and swarmed Butker, whose initial reaction was to play it cool.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026
• The other thing, however, is her inability to play it cool for even a millisecond, after being busted by her owner.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
• In Die Hard, Hart Bochner played Nakatomi exec Harry Ellis, who attempts to play it cool with Gruber, offering McClane as a bargaining chip to save his own life.
  — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025