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

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 White, Stewart Edward

Now, he had still another piece of apparatus to call into play.

From The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep by Durham, Victor G.

Has a young man a right to choose an occupation which will only call into play his lower and inferior qualities, as cunning, deceit, letting all his nobler qualities shrivel and die?

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett