How to Use role-play in a Sentence

role-play

verb
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  • Fans were allowed to board the school bus and role-play life on the road.
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The role-playing game of the same name follows a young hunter called Aloy.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Buy one get one 50% off Disney princess dress up/role-play items.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The game scrubs away a lot of the rules that can make getting into role-playing games a challenge.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The play is a mix of comedy and tragedy set against the world of fantasy role-playing games.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
  • The format for the finals was a mock-up of World of Warcraft, an online role-playing game.
    — Mikayla Whitmore, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • But getting the bot to understand the back-and-forth necessary to role-play combat took a lot of work.
    — Ethan Gilsdorf, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • Now, Titmouse is looking to bring its own spin on the classic role-playing game.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • As this is set in the role-playing world of Dungeons and Dragons, Edgin inevitably needs a team.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But the world of a role-playing game must be summoned over and over by the force of collective intention.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Timed to the 50th anniversary of the role-playing game, the USPS put out a set of commemorative stamps.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • In contrast to role-play videos, this category captures ASMR out in the wild.
    — Eliza Brooke, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • The 2017 action role-playing game casts players as Aloy, a young hunter in a world overrun by machines.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • My more imaginative friends would role-play as their characters, act out the scenes and do the voices.
    — Ally Beardsley, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Last week, Baidoo sat across from a fellow student and role-played a mental health counselor meeting a patient for the first time.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • With the toy, toddlers can role-play and help Bean change into underwear, wash hands, and use a mini potty.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Hasbro, which owns the role-playing game Dungeon & Dragons, rose 2%.
    — CBS News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, this generation role-playing game will have you among the stars.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And what is more comfortable than eschewing one’s own taste to role-play like a Pinterest board collaged with style stars of the past?
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • At the same time, makeup can be fun for role-playing dress-up, required for stage performances, and just a form of expression.
    — Rich Scherr, Parents, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Pokémon has been a global hit since it was launched as a role-playing game in 1996 for Nintendo’s Game Boy console.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Children play elaborate make-believe games with their toys and role-playing games with their peers.
    — Andrew Shtulman, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The vibes: There will be live-action role-play, a gaming hall, costume contests, a fashion show and family fun.
    — Analis Bailey, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
  • That campaign will take long hours as this tactical role-playing game has players building a rebel army from scratch.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But despite a strong reception, the generations of moviegoers who grew up with the role-playing game failed to show up in force.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • And one wildly ambitious role-play hotel that closed after little more than a year.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But there are just as many that probably should have been left on the console, like the role-playing first-person shooter game, Borderlands.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The three-story home boasts five rooms with three characters from the film — Mirabel, Antonio, and Abuela — for imaginative role-play.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Google developers researched smartphone theft methods used in different parts of the globe and role-played the robberies for training data.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Shawkat is a standout as an aspiring actress, enlisted to help at the role-playing facility, who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025

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