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

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

Fast Living and Long Living You may call into play all the stored-up resources of your being and still not stake everything upon a single throw.

From Initiative Psychic Energy Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren

He could not call into play any of the wrestling tricks that were his, all he could do was to keep his feet and wait for the madman's strength to expend itself.

From 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life by Grismer, Joseph Rhode