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
A third function is that of affording opportunity for the exercise of such specific or general abilities as the curriculum may call into play.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
For the present we will only observe that notwithstanding a certain similarity among the tests of this type, they do not all call into play the same mental processes.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
When we talked to the patient on a particular subject, one series of lines would be set in motion with indescribable rapidity; other topics would call into play other series of straight or curved lines.
From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley
