play
noun
a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
playless
-
a word derived from
play.
Example Sentences
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But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless.
From Time Magazine Archive
From eight to fourteen I was a playless day-dreamer, a helluo librorum; my appetite for which was indulged by a singular incident.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
I had in my thought to speak of these new inhabitants as workers, but that word has in it too much of the suggestion of endless, hopeless, playless labor.
From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley
We need but follow the children, who have had a playless childhood, into a narrow and barren manhood.
From The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
Odd little, silent creatures the children were, white-faced and white-haired, playless and grave, laboring like their elders even from the age of five or six.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
