play around with

Example Sentences

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As long as you have enough money to live on with your other sources of income, plus a 12-month emergency fund, you have enough time to play around with.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

"We are two men of 80 years of age, so we cannot play around with democracy," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

But none of that stops Claude Code from being fun to play around with.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Since they’re not rectangular, you can also be creative and play around with their positioning, adds Andrews.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

We have already witnessed composers beginning to play around with this sequence as they became aware of musical gravity, but in the dusty world of music terminology it has a name: the Circle of Fifths.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall