Use "play down" in a sentence

1. Alan was trying to play down his interest and understanding

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2. I remember many happy hours of play down here

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3. "Blast, at least that's what they play down there," Mingalle said

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4. They were part of Heinz’s display down there, along with gardens, fountains and pools

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5. need to play down their view that space is empty vacuum

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6. Johnson had only replied that more news would be made available in due course, and spent the remainder of the interview trying to play down the threat

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7. "Nothing much," he said, attempting to play down the importance of the John-Paul connection

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8. Some vastly expensive procedures to prolong life, by around fifty percent, had been available to those who could afford them for some time and, although some attempts had been made to play down their effectiveness, the general public were increasingly making demands upon their government to make these therapies generally available and affordable

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9. Even that support was far from assured and Laplante’s reporting of the merciless hammering inflicted on the Gaza Strip, something the Israeli government had tried to play down in 362

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10. And even if the rest try to play down the suspicions, with no solid grounds I might add, they persist

11. Historians try to play down Alexander’s murderous insanity

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12. Amory had long known women to be unreliable (even his fool sister); how could he possibly be construed to have invited one here? Nor had either of them bothered to change into civilian garb, or otherwise play down their difference from the cheaply but neatly dressed Latins

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