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

She does not ask for sedatives, but for some high stimulus to call into play her strong and well-trained faculties.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

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

It will surprise you to find how keen you will yourself become as the work goes on, and how it will call into play all your invention and your latent craftsmanship.

From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)