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
Certain of the protective reflex movements call into play a large number of muscles, as in the balancing of the body when walking along a narrow ledge, or on a slippery pavement.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
It will surprise you to find how keen you will yourself become as the work goes on, and how it will call into play all your invention and your latent craftsmanship.
From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by E. (Edith) Nesbit
