Looking for sentences and phrases with the word by-play? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Yelling chewy on your boot to someone taking a shot at goal is not sledging but accepted general by-play in the game.
Nevertheless, the primary focus of the interlude is upon the comic by-play of master and servant quite independent of these Luciferian vaunts.
Once they are established though, the audience is taken in and a comic by-play follows while the joke is revealed through greater audacity in the portrayal of the characters.
Examples from Classical Literature
The mother was too agitated to notice this by-play, but kept watch for her husband.
Don Estevan was not unobservant of this by-play that was passing around him.
The by-play seemed to him to be very suitable, and he bought a morning paper.
None of this by-play was lost upon Laurence, but he showed no consciousness.
The others were too interested in what was going on before them to observe the by-play.
The unknown did not seem, however, to have noticed this little piece of by-play.
He is attended by pantaloon, who carries on the usual by-play with Arlecchino.
The newcomers were beyond earshot, but the by-play was ominous to them.
But the girl had seen the by-play and had rightly interpreted its meaning.
Captain Dawson showed less interest in this by-play than the others.
