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

Its tenets are firmly based upon a goodly group of sciences, and their utilisation call into play a whole range of arts.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

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.

Davy's greatest contribution to telegraphy was the relay system by which very weak currents could call into play strong currents from a local battery, and so make the signals apparent at the receiving station.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg