How to Use play about in a Sentence

play about

verb
  • People don’t play about the man!
    — Reanna Cruz, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Sam Merrill has played about half the games.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Surely, the Olsen twins don't play about their siblings either.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Sun protection As a nurse of over 30 years, my mom doesn’t play about her eye health.
    — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Brock Purdy is playing about as well as any quarterback in the league right now.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • This all gets tabled for now because the women have a play to go to — specifically, a play about them.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The team announced that Wembanyama would be able to play about an hour before tip-off.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There’s something delightful about plays about grand divas in crisis.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • That meant more minutes for Reed Sheppard, who played about 30 minutes.
    — Varun Shankar, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Reed is playing about nine fewer snaps per game than last season, as Murphy has taken a more prominent role.
    — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • That said, playing about 30 games as a 20-year-old goalie in the AHL is no small task.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Giant, a play about Dahl running on Broadway through June, is anything but childish.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • He was cheered pregame, too, and set to play about 25 minutes following a two-plus-month absence and 27 straight games sidelined because of a right knee injury.
    — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Nurse played about 35 percent of his time versus elites in those seasons, and over 40 percent in 2021-22.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • It’s been a long, cold February in New York City, filled with the premieres of many plays about addiction and alcoholism.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The Mariners play about 170 miles north, and the San Francisco Giants 630 miles south.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • His next project is Dear England, the BBC’s adaptation of his hit play about the England soccer team.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The Robert Harling play about six women in the South is showing at the Lone Tree Arts Center this month.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • PuckIQ tells us Walman played about the same amount of time (as a percentage of overall) as Nurse against elite competition five-on-five.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • While San Francisco is absolutely worth visiting, the game is being played about an hour away in Santa Clara.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Stephen Curry was set to play about 25 minutes against Houston on Sunday night in his return from a two-plus-month absence because of a right knee injury.
    — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The London play about two young Black people who meet again after years apart starred Supacell’s Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 June 2026
  • Theater goers would not be interested in a play about Tucker Carlson’s pro-Palestinianism.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • As a child, Hamnet dies during the plague—a loss that O’Farrell depicts as catalyzing Shakespeare’s tragic play about the Danish prince.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Inspired, Welikala sent in her 400-word submission, a personal play about her grandmother’s dementia.
    — Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Furthermore, writing and acting out plays about their experiences with type 1 diabetes also eases children’s anxieties around their condition.
    — Elizabeth McClure, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
  • No, not Book of Mormon, but rather an original Greek tragedy written by a playwright named Stella that Angie commissioned to interview the women and craft a play about their group.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Certainly, those who committed to UCLA to play women's basketball just three years ago didn't have playing about half their games east of the Mississippi on their bingo card.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • On Selection Sunday, the Cougars were placed in the South Region, where the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds will be played about two miles from campus.
    — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The play about a white South African and two Black employees examines apartheid’s poison and carries fresh resonance as a cautionary tale about authoritarianism and white supremacy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026

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