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
Its worn-out plantations will become thriving farms, its mines and inexhaustible water-powers will call into play the incessant demand and supply of vigorous industry and active capital.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
A light pack will hang well enough from the shoulders, but when any weight is to be negotiated you must call into play the powerful muscles lying along the neck.
From Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White
In and about the shed at the shaft's mouth were grouped together men of every age and skilled in every branch of industry which active mining operations call into play.
From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
