How to Use play the game in a Sentence

play the game

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• Among the greatest of his gifts was playing the game forever as a child.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
• Getting a digital copy of a game works simply by inserting a compatible disc and installing and playing the game.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 1 July 2026
• The concourse at the stadium is packed with people standing and watching TVs playing the game, adding to the sweltering heat.
  — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026
• The problem, however, was that Messi was even better, on his way to winning his first Ballon d’Or and playing the game, or at least seeing it, in the future.
  — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026
• Spain’s talisman was Lamine Yamal, its nineteen-year-old right winger, who plays the game with bleached tips, implausible speed, and nonchalance, but its superego was Rodri, the team’s central midfielder and captain.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
• Who better to carry this underdog spirit than our birthright-citizen striker, or Weston McKennie, a military brat born in Texas who learned to play the game while his father was stationed abroad, in Germany?
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026