How to Use play politics in a Sentence

play politics

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• The human adventure was fine, but the agency would have to play politics to stay alive.
  — David W. Brown, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• There are people that want to play politics [who] will use that as an excuse to play politics.
  — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• Once the justice system is allowed to play politics, there is no stopping.
  — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Lehane had done such a good job teaching the Valley how to play politics that others could now mimic his gambits.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• Harris is right that a natural disaster is a time to work together and not to play politics.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 19 Oct. 2024
• At a certain point, wins and losses become more important than power-play politics.
  — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
• Our troops should not be left waiting for their paycheck while Washington politicians play politics.
  — Derek Tran, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
• Our job in local government is not to play politics, but to take care of all of our citizens — the ones that voted for me and the ones that didn’t.
  — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
• Congress will want to play politics and negotiate as if our lives, livelihoods, and well-being aren't on the lines daily!
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 19 Feb. 2021
• Now is not the time for our leaders and public servants to play politics with people’s lives or refuse to take science seriously.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2020
• But instead of working together to make this a reality, our lawmakers are choosing to play politics.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
• The doubling of donations from lobbyists undermines the efforts to prevent corruption and pay to play politics.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2022
• The memo stoked suspicions that the administration was going to play politics with the pandemic, rushing a vaccine to the market to bolster its chances.
  — Jerry Schwartz, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• Now that Fitch wants to play politics, financial rating agencies are making even political pollsters look credible.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• But some Democrats accused their GOP counterparts of using the hearing to play politics ahead of a critical election.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2020
• Women and families everywhere had been cast aside by Republicans who would rather play politics than seriously address the economic crisis.
  — Cecile Richards, ELLE, 14 Jan. 2022
• And then there are the piques and temper tantrums of ministry officials and company executives who irritate their bosses, play politics or get into personal tiffs with their counterparts in other countries.
  — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• There’s real opportunity for bipartisan work on lowering costs, fully funding our schools, and ending the pay-to-play politics that have defined Abbott’s tenure.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
• So long as lawmakers are willing to play politics with the lives of these vulnerable kids, the NCAA had better be willing to act and direct millions of dollars into other states.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2021