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
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Let your son play the part of Danny with this chic leather jacket.
—Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
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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
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Just bring along your sense of humor to really play the part.
—Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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To play the part, Kim also shared a recreation of the iconic clip on her own TikTok page.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2022
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Friday is our first full day of fall, and the weather will certainly play the part.
—Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
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Real life migrants play the part of extras in the Sky thriller series.
—Liza Foreman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021
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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
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Landlords who start out as bunnies will eventually need to play the part of the bear.
—Steve Davis, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
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Someone needed to approach Goldberg to play the part, so Bazawule made the call.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 29 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sewell also didn’t immediately agree to play the part of the royal.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
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Who’s going to play the part of the Native American character?
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion, a bastion of female bravado, agreed to play the part.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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The self-confidence to play the part of himself did not come easily for Ismaily.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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One difficult aspect for some young actors when producing the musical is that some must play the part of Nazis.
—cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
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