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

In and about the shed at the shaft's mouth were grouped together men of every age and skilled in every branch of industry which active mining operations call into play.

From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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.

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