Examples of 'we had to play' in a sentence

Meaning of "we had to play"

We had to play indicates that there was a requirement or obligation to participate in a game or activity. It suggests that the speaker and possibly others were compelled to engage in a specific play or performance

How to use "we had to play" in a sentence

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we had to play
We had to play a lot of injured ball players.
It was unfortunate we had to play them in the semifinal.
We had to play in the other city as well.
It was a game we had to play with pressure.
We had to play but we do not know how to.
It was six months until we had to play the show.
So now we had to play the waiting game.
This was just a scene we had to play.
I told you we had to play by their rules.
Werejust a cruel and foolish game we had to play.
So we had to play with ten men.
That was the game we had to play.
We knew we had to play right away.
The diversity of the ecosystem that we had to play with.
We had to play our cards smartly.

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To come here we knew we had to play the perfect match.
So we had to play the game a little bit smart.
The scene change completely as we had to play real match.
We knew we had to play a certain way.
My mother always threw us out so that we had to play outside.
We had to play fast when we had the ball.
And nobody said we had to play this down the middle.
We had to play to our self strategy.
In a scene we had to play.
We had to play a few tricks in order to catch up with you.
It was rough on them when we had to play two games in two days.
We had to play without a drummer.
But we conceded the third goal and we understood that we had to play.
We knew we had to play our hardest.
Miles Davis never wanted to leave when we had to play in France.
I knew we had to play very well.
He did not tell anyone but me, said we had to play it smart.
We had to play by your rules.
But there were also times when we had to play our way through.
We had to play or else we would have bankrupted our friends.
There was no internet, so we had to play with ourselves.
We had to play phone tag.
There was no gymnasium ; we had to play on the street.
We had to play in the mud.
To bring this about, we had to play a tight hand.
We had to play three games in six days after that.
When they found them, we had to play chess without pieces or a board.
We had to play in a certain way.
I mean, mainly due to injury last year we had to play a lot of guys.
We had to play for time.
Serious risk that we have taken, but we had to play the game.
We had to play a perfect game to beat them and we did not.
The tournament lasted two days, and we had to play two games each day.
We had to play by the rules that were set for us.
It was your universe . We had to play by your rules.

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