play around
Example Sentences
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“It was nice to play around with that and still keep her very aspirational but do a pared-down, East Village version of her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Ralf Rangnick's all-action Austria side will try to press the way they always do, but Spain will just play around them.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Don’t restrict yourself to one kind of cheese — play around with your flavors and throw in two, three, even four varieties of fromage.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
As long as you have enough money to live on with your other sources of income, plus a 12-month emergency fund, you have enough time to play around with.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
We have already witnessed composers beginning to play around with this sequence as they became aware of musical gravity, but in the dusty world of music terminology it has a name: the Circle of Fifths.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
