at play

Frequency: 6.57.1 per million words

In the state of playing.

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Examples (10)

  • Children spend hours at play in the local park.
  • The cat was at play with a ball of yarn.
  • Even as adults, we sometimes need time at play.
  • The children were noisy at play before dinner.
  • After school, the kids are usually at play in the backyard.
  • There are complex social dynamics at play in the community.
  • She recognized the psychological factors at play in his behavior.
  • Economic forces are always at play in the market.
  • What underlying mechanisms are at play here?
  • The interplay of several variables was at play in the experimental results.