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How to use at play in a sentence

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There are a number of factors at play here, just one of which is the fact that eating badly is cheaper, unfortunately.
The choices are his to make, but the forces at play in his life are far beyond his control.
But there was more than thwarted ambition and ministerial rivalry at play here.
The US Government's Bureau of Labor says there may be unusual seasonal factors at play in the figures.
A gentleman complained to Talleyrand of having been insulted by a charge of cheating at play.
Tricky earn-out clauses are said to be delaying the finalisation of the deal, but other factors are also at play.
The pyromaniacs were at play, led by the Stratton brothers, stoking the fire with gasoline and kindling.
Clearly, these kinds of images of the miserable at play will evoke horror in the minds of every sane person.
The most obvious factor at play in determining dominancy is sheer physical size.
He is a recurring metaphor for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
There is a rueful self-deprecation at play here, at odds with a quiet desperation.
Surely beneficence and malignance are both at play in the contemporary world, at every level.
Third, the public believes that there is a self-correcting mechanism at play with respect to the Court.
Of all the objects, places, concepts, and titanic forces at play in 2004, the most monumental, influential, and ascendant is surely the blog.
While at play, toddlers and young children are usually in the care of older siblings.
The two continuums frequently overlap, which is what makes it hard to decipher all the metamessages at play in a conversation.
I would like to better understand what is at play in our technological experiences.
Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra, the image works.
But there's an emotional security at play too, the kind of home-away-from-home feeling that the jet set crave.
In other words, Darwinian processes of natural selection are now at play in the science media.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If you had worn a boy's coat, or a fishskin, always, I had sense enough to see that it was a saint at play.
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles.
In so far forth, they express the surplusage of vitality over need, the creative freedom of life at play.
He may fail in the attempt, and be a peevish thing at play, but the attempt will show him at his best.
When the king lost he was most exacting for his 'revanche,' or revenge, as it is termed at play.
And he formed in his head draconic laws which he would fain have executed upon men who lost money at play and did not pay.
As Belle-Ann looked straight into his eyes, her face was now all aflush with pleasure and the baffling dimples were at play.
So they went out to where the children were at play, but Mr. Ewing was undecided.
I wish that I might sometimes hear the good, clanging music of weapons at play.
In the daytime nobody was seen there but mendicants devouring their crusts, and children at play.
While the lockout has played a part in the increased attendance, Abbott said there are other factors also at play.
Again, another reminded her of children at play, and still another of nothing on earth but a demure lady stroking a cat.
This will serve to explain why, in spite of his constant winning at play, the old chevalier remained the spoilt darling of the town.
Have you marked a shooting star, or watched a young gazelle at play?
The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play.
As he passed out of the building he descried the boys at play on the lawn.
Those who were at play, were gleesome and noisy as other children.
I was watching Willie and grouse at play on the lawn a few days since.
Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa, were at play together near the seashore in their father's kingdom of Phoenicia.
Other broad social-structural factors are at play in women's lives that have the potential to disentitle their access to income security in old age.
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