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Example sentences for "play golf"

  • In England we do not encourage the boys to play golf.

  • The old maxim that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, applies with tremendous force to match-play golf.

  • Both are so pretty it is a shame they attempt to play golf.

  • Women may gain in health by attempting to play golf, but they do so at the expense of shattered masculine nerves and morals.

  • There is no law to compel a man to play golf if he does not wish to.

  • I may have suffered--probably I have--under many illusions with regard to my ability to play golf, but I never so deluded myself as to suppose I was as good a player as Johnny Ball.

  • I never had seen a lady able to play golf at all as Lady Margaret played the game.

  • When he went away they had arranged to play golf together, to dine together one night at the Bella Napoli.

  • She was a good whip, a fine skater and lawn tennis player, had shot and hunted in France, liked racing, and had learnt to play golf on the links at Cannes when she was a girl of fifteen.

  • When I play golf much I always begin to feel like a gouty Prime Minister who has been ordered to play for the good of the country," she said.

  • He would not come down here at such a time to play golf.

  • If your uncle is going to play golf here, it will be very dull for you.

  • He is going to play golf on the Deringham links.

  • On the contrary," he said; "he has gone down into Norfolk to play golf.

  • You were a soldier and you can't play golf.

  • So my mother has a list of the suitable, and they come down to Ashbridge in gloomy succession, and she and I are sent out to play golf together or go on the river.

  • It's all right to play the piano, if it's too wet to play golf.

  • She should learn to play golf, she should dig flower beds, she should wade in a brook.

  • At any rate, it was not long after the Eckstrom invasion that Stella and I went to play golf, carrying a load of lettuce heads and cauliflowers to market on our way.

  • Now we have already seen that James Braid in Advanced Golf, which was published after How to Play Golf, has abandoned the idea that the golf drive is a sweep.

  • In those days the commonest of questions in regard to the game was, "You have to be a fine rider, do you not, to play golf?

  • Be sure of one thing: you cannot learn to play golf out of your own head, or even by an intelligent study of books on the subject.

  • Remember, too, that whilst men like to play golf in old clothes, and often have a kind of superstitious regard for some disgracefully old and dirty jacket, a girl must not follow their example.

  • A very jolly place it is whereon to play golf, though the golf perhaps is not of the highest class.

  • I can only end as I began by asserting that there is no more delightful course whereon to play golf.

  • Of the many good courses in East Anglia, I have the tenderest and most sentimental association with =Felixstowe=, because it was there that I began to play golf.

  • That is the way in which the people of America are learning to play golf, and it is the proper way.

  • After all it is better to play golf than to write or read about it.

  • Consequently it is no business of the modern writer to argue as to whether the fair sex ought or ought not to play golf; the fact is there that they do, and that more of them do so every week.

  • Chris had driven out into the country with Dorothy to play golf, and for the first time for a week Marie found herself with a little breathing space.

  • I thought the main object was to play golf.

  • I seem to be hopelessly out of fashion because I don't play golf," Marie said when she and Feathers were alone again.

  • You come down with me to Littlestone and I'll teach you how to play golf--golf, sir!

  • One had only to glance at my bagful of clubs to perceive that it was going to cost me enough to play golf as it was.

  • I thought," growled Pickard, "that we'd come here to play golf.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "play golf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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