play

They played long and hard.

We're playing one of the top teams in the next round.

Look at the score now ... 23 plays 8!

Her proper face

I not descerned in that darkesome shade,

But weend it was my loue, with whom he playd.

“I play, comparatively, very little; I don't drink a fifth part so much as half the people I live with; and I reckon myself, upon the whole, a very orderly, sober fellow.”

He plays the King, and she’s the Queen.

If your guitar plays well on fretted strings but annoys you on the open ones, the nut's probably worn out.

I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.

I'll play the piano and you sing.

You can play the DVD now.

His latest film is playing in the local theatre tomorrow.

I got a hold of Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong's agent and I explained to him on the phone that, "I know you're playing London on Wednesday night. Why don't you come and play the Arena in Windsor on Saturday night?"

to play a comedy

Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt.

Thus Men are apt to play with their Healths and their Lives as they do with their Cloaths: …

His mother played false with a smith.

to play tricks

He grew serious. “Sorry, E.M. Just fucking around.”

“Well, I don’t play like that and you know it.”

The fountain plays.

the waving sedges play with wind

to play cannon upon a fortification

You played me!