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
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But until now there had not arisen in their lives one of those searching questions which call into play emotions rooted far below reason and judgment, in the dark primal depths of inherited feeling.
From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo
His work certainly must call into play every muscle of his body.
From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden
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