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How to use play-act in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word play-act? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Rich people need to play-act their financial largesse, so we can hate them for it.
Adults, in turn, poison the minds of the young, who every day joyously play-act your murder.
They will see the world differently and may not be so eager to play-act violence.
In this surreal scene mimes play-act at tennis, and after spectating for a while the protagonist joins in.
How could someone play-act with the honor and politesse of the 19th century but be such a cad in real life?
Leon and Mario, two friends, live in the Bronx and in summer like to play-act at the boathouse on the Bronx River.
Sometimes they never appear as themselves at all, but play-act in their cartes-de-visite.
Once it is done you can force them to play-act The Next Generation with you.
The idea is that a player would not play-act because he would reduce his team to ten men while he is off the field waiting to be waved back on.
Bennie and Walter play-act in a repetitive chant, as Ruth embarrassingly answers the door to let in George Murchison.
Girls are much more likely to play house, or to play-act their favorite stories or movies.
My kid's only 5, so it's a bit different for him, but he goes to regular sessions where he basically learns to play-act through a lot of imaginative and social situations.
There was about the old movie industry a feeling that adolescents — adolescent actors and adolescent moguls — were dressing up to play-act as adults.
Don't play-act being more tired than you are, or be mentally weak enough to give in before you have to, and then training and playing rugby is so simple.
Expect children to play-act death situations.
She spends money loose and fast, but she also knows how to play-act.
Ask Meryl Streep to play-act for the camera and the result is pristine professionalism, icy exactitude and a self-possession that veers on the eerie.
Examples from Classical Literature
I thought he could play-act the thing in his mind too well ever to be the thing itself.
It had been helpful and even laudable to play-act the chief scenes when the story was beginning, but now they had no time.
You're such a sinful old 'ypocrite, that you play-act before yourself, I do believe.
I am merely vexed that you should play-act to me, and to Bezobiedoff, and to yourself.
But whatever you do, don't play-act like you're an air-headed, not-so-cerebral, mush-for-brains girl.
It gave high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to play-act and try solving several intriguing financial crimes.
For hard it was on Michael, a nerve and mental strain of the severest for him so to control himself as to play-act anger and threat of hurt to his beloved Steward.
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