playing safe
Example Sentences
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With a playwright as hawk-eyed as Gasda at the helm, “Zoomers” has the potential to be a substantial work about the new-to-adulthood generation, but it won’t get there playing safe, or playing Smash.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Bairstow's six-hitting has banked him millions of Rupees on these shores but he fell lifting the ball into the hands of long-off, neither going for broke nor playing safe.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan made their comedy great by never playing safe.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019
“I’m gunning for 58 this year, not playing safe for 59.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2018
All right then, and I want to say that I think you're playing safe in the game.
From Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School by Chapman, Allen
