Sentence examples for played from high-quality English sources.

• He had never played anyone inside the top fifty.

• No one at Sevilla has played more derbies, either.

• Of the eight they've played without loss, six have been at Hampden.

• Marsh played in Hoagy Carmichael’s Teenagers (1945) before serving in the U.S.

• Lewullis played for Princeton three more seasons and captained the Tigers his senior year.

• The kora is traditionally played by the griots, who often accompany their recitations with music.

• In Suspicion (1941) Fontaine played the timid wife of a cad (Cary Grant), who may be trying to kill her.

• One involves domestic league matches being played at weekends and European and general cup competitions in midweek.

Use played in a sentence.

• "The Aviator" followed the adventurous life of Howard Hughes — played by Leonardo DiCaprio — who was a billionaire and playboy.

• You want to see how Rafa has played here this year, and Roger’s also always curious about how it was when he played him back in the day.”

• Newman played “Fast” Eddie Felson, a brash pool hustler who makes a name for himself as he travels the country with an equally unscrupulous manager (played by Myron McCormick).

• The game of pocket billiards, or pool, which uses six large pocket openings, is primarily the game played on the American continents and, in recent years, has been played in Japan.

• In the acclaimed 2019 biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," Malek played Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and Boynton played Mary Austin, the singer's onetime girlfriend and lifelong best friend.

• His study also found that children who played for more than three hours a day were less happy than those who never played video games at all and were susceptible to behavioural problems.

• Rackets is played with a hard ball in a relatively large court, usually about 18 m (60 ft) long by 9 m wide—unlike the related game of squash rackets (q.v.), which is played with a soft ball on a smaller court.

• The Texans have played up and down to their competition this season, their defense is weak, Deshaun Watson hasn't played his best football down the stretch, and the Texans enter the playoffs with more injury questions than Buffalo.

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• Other viewers are really hoping the showrunner Shonda Rhimes doesn't kill off Chambers' character, something she did when past actors like Patrick Dempsey (who played Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd) and TR Knight (who played George O'Malley) left the series.

• "The top 40 most-played songs are the sounds that radio producers and broadcasters have consistently played throughout the last decade and will evoke many memories for all of us," said Peter Leathem, boss of the music licensing company which compiled the chart.

• Camelot centres on England’s reluctant, angst-ridden King Arthur (played by Richard Harris), whose attempts to bring civility to his land are undermined by the love affair between his queen, Guenevere (played by Vanessa Redgrave), and his most loyal knight, Lancelot (played by Franco Nero).

• In the trio sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, the three parts are often played by fewer than three instruments; one top part might be played by violin and the other two parts by keyboard, or all three parts might be played on one organ (the two top parts on the keyboards and the bottom part on the pedals).