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

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 Lumley, Benjamin

In the struggle the boys call into play all their lore of the woods.

From The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

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.