call into play

Example Sentences

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Will we devoutly wish for a new risk factor to call into play as we see memory slipping as our dotage arises?

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013

Now she would have to call into play all of her climbing ability to keep going up the treacherously steep smooth slates.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

I thought it highly advisable to call into play the resources of his country, by opening a trade with individual European merchants.

From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry

A third function is that of affording opportunity for the exercise of such specific or general abilities as the curriculum may call into play.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

What culture, though—what a combination of gifts, does this portrayal require and call into play!

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin