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

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

Now, he had still another piece of apparatus to call into play.

From The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep by Durham, Victor G.

All of us like the people, situations, experiences and environments which bring out our natural tendencies, which call into play those reflexes and reactions to which we tend naturally.

From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Benedict, Elsie Lincoln