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

Its tenets are firmly based upon a goodly group of sciences, and their utilisation call into play a whole range of arts.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

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

Has a young man a right to choose an occupation which will only call into play his lower and inferior qualities, as cunning, deceit, letting all his nobler qualities shrivel and die?

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett