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Example sentences for "play tennis"

  • Tommy declared that Buster was too fat to play tennis anyway, and that it was fortunate for her companions that she knew it.

  • But I'm going to play tennis and I'm going to play it well.

  • Even if I can't play tennis," answered Harriet.

  • And what's more, I want you to understand that I know how to play tennis fully as well as you do.

  • She was going to play tennis, and her mother had gotten her an "awfully pretty" white sport suit!

  • I don't want to play tennis either, especially when I don't know anybody much and not so very many can play.

  • It is not too strong a word to say that Matty, Alice and Sophy Bell, received their invitation to play tennis at the Manor with a due sense of jubilation.

  • The invitation to play tennis at the Manor completed the satisfaction of this mother and daughter.

  • Your daughter has already kindly promised to come here to play tennis to-day--at least I understand from Kate that such is the arrangement.

  • Shall we play tennis, or go for a walk down the fields?

  • I suppose they'll play tennis at this new school?

  • He wanted to play tennis, morning, noon and night.

  • And something was said about playing tennis, and it turns out that he likes to play tennis and I also like to play tennis.

  • Nora," singling out a tall girl, with an interesting face, "I am going to ask you to teach Miss Ward to play tennis.

  • It is early closing-day with most of them, and they come up early to play tennis.

  • I never do play tennis," said Cecil, painfully bewildered; "I never could play.

  • I don't play tennis--at least, not in public.

  • She moved across the lawn and smiled in at them, just as if she was going to ask them to play tennis.

  • Then men, who have not seen another white face for a week, foregather, do justice to the lunch, play tennis or polo, and take a farewell drink or two when the setting sun warns them to depart.

  • So the bachelors, who can more easily afford to take leave than the married men, are at their service to ride, play tennis, dance and flirt with them.

  • Oh, thank you, Miss de la Molle; yes, I think I can come, though I play tennis atrociously.

  • Nodding affectionately at the former, he asked her if she was not going to play tennis, and then drew Cossey aside.

  • A match player should not only be able to play tennis, but should combine the virtues of an aeroplane and a submarine as well.

  • Formerly a man or boy had to belong to a club in order to have an opportunity to play tennis.

  • For the first time I realized just what the gallery thought of my efforts to play tennis, and also of the handicap of the famous "blue-bearskin" as they termed it.

  • A team that is fighting among themselves has little time left to play tennis, and after all tennis is the main object of doubles.

  • I thought he was coming up to play tennis?

  • It's far too hot to play tennis," said Irene Spencer.

  • Don't let us keep you, if you want to play tennis," begged Lindsay, with cold politeness.

  • The moment the meal was finished the two girls followed Merle into the garden, but, greatly to their surprise, she took no notice of them, and began to play tennis.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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