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Meaning playing meaning
What does playing mean?
playing
Synonyms playing synonyms
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Topics playing topics
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Examples playing examples
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Simple sentences
I see Mary playing the piano.
Tom is playing the violin now.
Jane may be playing tennis with my brother.
My hobby is playing the guitar.
He practices playing the guitar far into the night.
My sister is playing with a doll.
What's your favorite role-playing game?
I can't believe that you wouldn't enjoy playing cards with me and my friends.
Tom told me that Mary was good at playing the piano, but I didn't really believe him until I heard her play.
Tom is playing with his son.
Tom and Mary are playing cards.
Stop playing Minecraft.
I can't stop playing Minecraft.
Nothing great has been achieved by playing it safe.
You should practice playing the violin every day.
You should practice playing the piano regularly.
He is playing outdoors.
We killed time by playing cards.
We enjoyed playing tennis.
Hundreds of boys are playing in the ground.
Who that understands music could say his playing was good?
I'm playing a TV game.
The rain prevented us from playing tennis outside.
Lucy likes playing tennis.
I wish she would stop playing that stupid music.
Music started playing in the restaurant so there was a real romantic mood.
Pochi and Moko are in the kennel, and other dogs are playing in the garden.
Helen is playing in the yard.
Frank can't have been ill. He was playing tennis all day.
Playing the piano is her favorite pastime.
Who is the man playing the piano?
The girl playing the piano is my sister.
Movie subtitles
I should stop playing with kids.
Kevin was caught playing hooky!
How about maybe he's playing this game that he's a very nice guy, everybody trusts him, just to win the game?
Look, we're playing a game.
I'm playing a game-- for money.
I don't do romance, and I'm not playing a dating game.
Not only do we have to worry about the producers playing mind games with us, we got to worry about that guy.
Why are you playing around?
It seems that young bastard is engrossed in playing Magistrate.
Is that Anita Baker playing in the background?
We slow-playing?
I mean, t-the music's playing from someone's phone.
Stop playing!
Man, I thought we was playing charades.
I am done playing with you!
He's playing cat and mouse with us.
Hello, Mother. Playing house?
And for not playing?
I suppose you are too exhausted playing with balloons to stand up.
But I'll have no playing in my class!
Ah, stop your playing.
How do you like playing with Paddy?
I was playing some miniature bridge with some The Singer's midgets.
Are you playing?
It's scary enough without playing funny tricks.
Weren't you playing something?
Have you finished playing?
The ones I told you about are playing for Darwin.
And, like, you know, when you're sitting around with your friends playing video games and it's fun, but if you munch a nice, big PBJ first, it's even awesomer.
Maybe to adults it looks like we're just running around, playing whatever we want to, wherever we want to, running all around the yard, willy-nilly without barriers or boundaries.
We want to play the winners. The losers of this game are playing the winners.
Frankie's team was playing for greed; Bud's team was playing for justice, so it meant more to them.
And we're playing tennis now.
OKAY? NOW, SHE THINKS THAT SHE IS PLAYING WORD PUZZLES.
I wanted to hear them playing together.
News and current affairs
But, by aiding the Taliban, Pakistan is playing with fire, because there are now also Pakistani Talibans who pose a threat to Pakistan.
For now, we have a World Cup filled with soccer that is being shaped by a new, young generation both on and off the playing field - light-hearted, enthralling, and beautiful to watch.
Barter payments, -- which stifled the energy market -- were eliminated. So too tax breaks and other privileges that skewed the playing field in favor of a select few.
If he wins a second term, he is likely to find it increasingly difficult to win by playing not to lose.
MILAN - At the end of this month, Italian voters will choose their next government, from which they expect jobs and a more level economic playing field - and from which Italy's European partners expect structural reforms and fiscal probity.
African teams, except when they were playing against France, were favored over those from the European Union.
As I watched the Croatia-Australia match early in the tournament, I surprised myself, too, as I realized that my emotions were with the Australian team, whatever that could mean, given that there were so many Croatians playing for Australia.
That still leaves a one-in-three chance of catastrophe - worse odds than playing Russian roulette.
By now, they see themselves as playing with the house's (or their houses') money.
After Fischer became champion and simply stopped playing competitive chess, his mental illness became much worse.
Is Bush playing politics by pandering to anti-Arab and anti-Iranian sentiment in America?
The global capitalist system has produced a very uneven playing field.
As skillful as Henrique Capriles Radonski, the opposition candidate, may be, the playing field is so uneven that he appears to stand little chance.
At the same time, while the Wolfowitz scandal unfolded, China was playing host to the Africa Development Bank (ADB), which held its Board meeting in Shanghai.
The IMF is on much weaker ground, however, in thinking that its one-size-fits-all global tax system will somehow level the playing field internationally.
The events of September 11, 2001, are also playing a crucial role in deciding the question of a punitive strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
They prefer what they see as the rugged individualism of free-market forces, a level capitalist playing field, and a weak state that does not impinge on their personal choices.
In the Middle East game of thrones, Obama is playing his hand as well as he can.
True, with the World Cup's end, many are arguing, as usual, that Americans pay attention only every four years - and only when the US is playing.
In almost every case, my driver would tell me that his children were playing in local youth leagues.
Indeed, in China, a now-familiar pattern is playing out yet again - another slowdown in domestic growth stemming from a crisis in the advanced economies of the West.
He was very good at playing to that ancient Western stereotype of the Wise Man from the East.
After all, not only is Asia becoming the pivot of global geopolitical change, but Asian challenges are also playing into international strategic challenges.
How will you help American students compete globally, while ensuring a level playing field at home for talented foreign students and workers?
Such thinking may be playing a part in the recent rebound of home prices.
So too tax breaks and other privileges that skewed the playing field in favor of a select few.
External conditions are playing little part in China's slowdown.
In all likelihood, therefore, Europe will not be playing the Italian card; instead, it will face substantial difficulties in freeing itself from its current stagnation.
Even the Bank of England has asked whether, given the cost of mopping up the mess caused by the latest crisis, it is worth playing host to a global financial market.
Staying on the sidelines of this Arab-Western coalition, Israel is playing its cards close to its chest.
At the same time, the regional struggle currently playing out in Syria is becoming increasingly entangled with the other major source of war sounds: Iran's nuclear program.
China has shown itself adept at assertively promoting its national interests and playing classical balance-of-power geopolitics.
Despite the growing promise of a multi-polar world with Asian powers playing a greater role in addressing global challenges and sharing leadership with a weary US, that world does not yet exist.