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

His work certainly must call into play every muscle of his body.

From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden

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

All doubts are gone from his mind now as to whether one exercise he knows will call into play the muscles of his leg below the knee or not.

From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden