play around

Example Sentences

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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

So we play around with different ideas for that, and that would be nice to see because we’ve seen Elsbeth as a mother, but we haven’t seen her as a daughter.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 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

After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald