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

For the present we will only observe that notwithstanding a certain similarity among the tests of this type, they do not all call into play the same mental processes.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

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

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.