How to Use played out in a Sentence

played out

adjective
  • I'm just played out after the week I've had.
  • Read below to see how the rest of the week played out.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Gilmore said that the city was pleased with how the filming played out.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • All of that stuff will be shown on the screen as the recording is played out.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The fashion in which the last 10 laps played out.
    — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Very similar to us in terms of how their games have played out.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The same patterns have played out in other cities across the state.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The bizarre scene played out as a choir at the venue continued to sing.
    — Cara Anna, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Those maps marked how battles played out and where campaigns went wrong.
    — Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Here is a state-by-state look at how the Senate races played out.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Part of that process was the one that has played out over the past several months.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Outside of a blowout loss to the Hawkeyes, each has played out the same way.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The this-is-how-they-get-down-in-my-city rap song doesn’t ever get played out.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This scene has played out time and again throughout North Texas.
    — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But as the first game of the best of three series played out, the boys didn't beat up on the girls.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Orange Lutheran has played out of state in two of its three games.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Doja and Quinn’s romance played out in the tabloids.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The way the game played out, there was little margin for error.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Similar stories have played out many times in the past decade.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Sadly, the perils of this path have played out all too painfully.
    — Lars Lehne, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The way the rest of the game played out, that misfire proved critical.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Concerns about free speech have also played out in the media.
    — Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That deadly domino effect played out last spring, and again in the fall.
    — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2021
  • That case, too, has been on hold while the federal cases played out.
    — Claire Savage and Michael Tarm, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In many ways, the problem stems from how Johnson’s demise played out.
    — Alex Wickham, Bloomberg.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The biggest one, though, had to do with how his junior season played out.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The weddings played out during the finale episode and is sure to leave fans shocked.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Was there something in the way the two races played out that produced those results?
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Set in a forest and played out in real time, the boy’s parents search for him.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Bowlan had butterflies as his career night played out.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025

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