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

She does not ask for sedatives, but for some high stimulus to call into play her strong and well-trained faculties.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

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 Hollingworth, Harry L.

Now, he had still another piece of apparatus to call into play.

From The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep by Durham, Victor G.