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

This may consist of exercises that call into play all the muscles of the body, or which are concentrated upon special parts.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

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

He was forced to call into play muscles he had not used in what seemed ages—not since he sported of an afternoon in a rather odorous college gymnasium.

From Seven Keys to Baldpate by Biggers, Earl Derr