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

To interpret effectively any one of the Browning monologues will call into play every element of power in voice and expression which you have gained in your study of previous forms.

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell

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)