play act
Example Sentences
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When I was little, I would play act in a swimming pool, for example, creating fake scenes from fake movies.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024
We get to play act a war when people are dying.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024
“We don’t play act — it’s not a game. It’s life.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2017
They are central to the creative process of the theatre but never have to write a play, act a part or sweep a stage; they have the perfect job.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2010
This practice of indicating business in the lines, of making the play act, is common to all the older types of drama, Elizabethan as well as classic.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace
