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

He was forced to call into play muscles he had not used in what seemed ages—not since he sported of an afternoon in a rather odorous college gymnasium.

From Seven Keys to Baldpate by Biggers, Earl Derr

A light pack will hang well enough from the shoulders, but when any weight is to be negotiated you must call into play the powerful muscles lying along the neck.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

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