How to Use play the part in a Sentence

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• For three days, Ramon Sosa had to play the part of a dead man.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2020
• Let your son play the part of Danny with this chic leather jacket.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
• This is the set for foodies and home chefs whose cutlery needs to not only play the part but look the part as well.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 16 May 2022
• Just bring along your sense of humor to really play the part.
  — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2021
• Khan didn’t need to puff up his arms or chest to play the part of an enforcer to a medieval warlord.
  — Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
• Is there any chance a special guest star could show up next week, swoop in, and play the part of the murderer?
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2021
• To play the part, Kim also shared a recreation of the iconic clip on her own TikTok page.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2022
• Friday is our first full day of fall, and the weather will certainly play the part.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• Real life migrants play the part of extras in the Sky thriller series.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021
• Their looks may not matter much anyway; the hooting women are thrilled just to play the part of men for a night.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Landlords who start out as bunnies will eventually need to play the part of the bear.
  — Steve Davis, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Someone needed to approach Goldberg to play the part, so Bazawule made the call.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 29 Dec. 2023
• But in 2023, the streets are just a stage for Miu Miu, and many of us, including Chalamet, are more than willing to play the part.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Mar. 2023
• And chemistry reads are always weird because, by that point, anyone who has been called to that round could play the part.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• And chemistry reads are always weird because, by that point, anyone who has been called to that round could play the part.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• The new video sees Grande play the part of a scientist in a high-tech lab (complete with a white lab coat and sky-high white platforms to match, of course).
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2020
• Mid-September is historically the beginning of one of the nicest times of the year, and this year looks to play the part.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
• Others show up every weekend, in a different freaking costume, ready to bow and scrape to me and play the part.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
• Sewell also didn’t immediately agree to play the part of the royal.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
• Who’s going to play the part of the Native American character?
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
• Conlin’s Tara is playful and creative and refuses to play the part of a judgmental ex.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2022
• The role of Lotus went to an Austrian performer named Tilly Losch, who, like the other white actors cast in the movie, would play the part in yellowface.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion, a bastion of female bravado, agreed to play the part.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
• The easy way out for Affleck would have been to play the part for laughs, a little sheepishness here, a little winking at the audience there.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• For a time after her husband, Aaron, died, McInerny, now 39, tried to play the part, despite the deep pain of his loss, which left her as the single mother of a toddler.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022
• The self-confidence to play the part of himself did not come easily for Ismaily.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• In Louisville Ballet’s production of the iconic Christmas ballet, five women play the part of Marie.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2022
• Hudson was famously chosen by Franklin to play the part, several years before the Queen of Soul's 2018 death.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2020
• To truly play the part right on October 31, consider using a fitting new witch name to use on trick-or-treaters and get in the spirit.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 24 July 2020
• One difficult aspect for some young actors when producing the musical is that some must play the part of Nazis.
  — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024