How To Use Playable In A Sentence
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Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
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It's not just pretty to look at though, it's also incredibly playable.
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some great playable characters are taken from the back catalogue of games, too.
The Sun
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Combine its sealed modules to create sounds, playable on the included keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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His second wound up in Lytham's deep rough and was unplayable.
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A system for handling sloppy input was also incorporated to make the game really playable with the analog stick.
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The best players build swings that produce playable misses—the fewer the misses, and the better the misses are, the more consistent a player becomes.
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We found it had some issues importing video we'd grabbed from elsewhere, and it couldn't be used to create a playable DVD.
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He discovered that his original ball was on the island and playable.
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The bunkers were in an unbelievable condition no doubt due to the efforts by the ground keepers on the other eighteen which made them almost unplayable.
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'bitmapping' (where is the player looking, display images only in that area, hes moved map, grab more images and stop displaying out of view ones) it actually appears as a playable game like any other. (albeit from the 80's lol graphics were not part of the deal)
WebDeveloper.com
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Many more will be playable too ... but there's a catch.
The Sun
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All the leaders were quick to praise the efforts of the greenkeeping staff, at least 10 of whom had worked through the night without any sleep to get the course playable.
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Yamauchi said the team at Polyphony Digital has been working on several different areas of late, including a new physics engine and damage, as well as adding moveable objects on the track (such as destructible tyre walls on the Tokyo Route 246 track, playable on the show floor of TGS 2009).
CNET Australia
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The potent combination of speed and size makes him almost unplayable on his day.
Times, Sunday Times
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a playable lie in golf
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Demands for a picturesque and playable turf in place by tourist season make waiting for appropriate seasonal temperatures an unrealistic option for most turf managers.
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The team routinely extends opponents' innings by not reaching playable balls or botching plays that are ruled as hits.
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All games are timed for 11.30 a.m. with first named teams having home venue unless pitches are unplayable.
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Czerny's music is eminently playable, predictable and listenable to in the same sort of way that Vivaldi's is eminently playable, predictable and listenable.
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You can also turn captured enemies into playable characters for your side.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tears of a self-confessed stoic will always grab the headlines, but it should be noted that this match was extraordinarily absorbing, with Rezaï producing shots of unplayable depth.
Victorious Serena Fails to Ward Off Tears
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The potent combination of speed and size makes him almost unplayable on his day.
Times, Sunday Times
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the ball field was playable
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On some days, he simply seems unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tight, slick production makes this easily playable at high volume without many gimmicky distractions.
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It's a ridiculously playable resource management game.
The Sun
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There were also two playable eight letter words.
Times, Sunday Times
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some music seems almost unplayable
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In all cases, the pitches were playable.
The Sun
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Their match with Hull, scheduled to kick-off at 1pm, has been postponed due to the pitch being unplayable.
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Two more singles are added - and as I observed at 0457, he seems more like runless, wicketless Brisbane Johnson than the unplayable Johnson of Perth.
BBC News - Home
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Current playable songs number only in the hundreds.
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All the shots playable in the possible impact set constitute the possible shot set.
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The conditions at that stage were unplayable, more so for the bowlers and fielders than the batsmen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The greens are not playable, so there's no way the tournament can go ahead.
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Poor weather left pitches unplayable, especially for training purposes, as McPartland and his selectors assessed the worth of over 60 players during trials.
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He was unplayable at times.
The Sun
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You have finally found another life, a sculptable, moldable, replayable thing.
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Such are the quality of modern day pitches like Hyde Park, a couple of rain-free hours could help turn a water-logged sod into a playable surface.
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The finished product will be a displayable map for a requested location.
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Although both pitches were playable because of undersoil heating, conditions around their stadiums were considered too hazardous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coria claims his second break with two more unplayable backhands down the line that leave Agassi stranded.
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A football match between the crews of two nuclear submarines at the North Pole had to be cancelled - the pitch was unplayable.
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To make this all a bit more digestible for a modern palate, the director has trimmed away some of the pomp, as well as the stodgier verbiage of "Henry VIII," and the reductions make for a more playable evening.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
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Cut off from the world and supported by a private income, he composed dauntingly huge pieces which were regarded as all but unplayable.
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A technology known as Digital Rights Management is built into the video files so that they are unplayable after a set time.
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Most golfers today expect every square foot of the golf course to be manicured and playable.
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Last week, the Terriers had travelled to Spotland with only 12 fit players, though that game was cancelled as the pitch was unplayable.
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Then we had a referee who took one look at it and said it was unplayable.
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The piano part, in particular, was easily playable for the strong beginner with at least a few years of study.
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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For once, though, the ground-breaking composer, whose first work was rejected as unplayable by the Royal Manchester College, has a precedent.
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Ndima received an unplayable delivery from Namibian strike bowler, Gerrie Snyman, edging to wicketkeeper Morne Karg.
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Before the work was carried out the pitches were unplayable during the winter due to waterlogging.
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The guitar had a moulded plastic fretboard and friction pegs, and was of course completely untunable, let alone playable.
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And he insisted the course was unplayable as huge puddles formed after a heavy downpour.
The Sun
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Some of the playing surfaces in the league are a joke, are almost unplayable and a health hazard to the players.
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The greens are almost unplayable with ferocious pace, bumps and borrows.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he played on Sunday he said the gusts were so strong that the course was unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hooked his drive into a hazard, but the ball was still playable.
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Fish then found from somewhere the energy to hit three more unplayable serves and finally end the match.
Times, Sunday Times
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the simplest but most misunderstood rules predicaments on the PGA Tour is a ball that's unplayable, says tour rules official Mark Russell.
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Sergio thought of taking an unplayable penalty but decided to slash it out.
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Nasser Hussain could only edge an unplayable McGrath delivery to Ricky Ponting at second slip, who took a sensational sprawling catch.
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The Hibs groundsman declared it unplayable, and the referee indicated during the warm-up that the match would be completed only if there was no more rain.
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And he insisted the course was unplayable as huge puddles formed after a heavy downpour.
The Sun
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The story is beefed up with a colourful scale of playable characters who gradually join your team and unfold facets of their distinct personalities and pasts.
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While HDCP's digital rights management (DRM) is "revocable" -- it allows copyright owners to generate a fresh set of encryption keys for new releases, after which law-abiding owners of Blu-ray players have to wait for firmware updates to watch those titles -- the master key by its nature can't be revoked without making every existing release unplayable on hardware that complied with the old key.
Blu-ray's HDCP security possibly cracked. So what?
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Many more will be playable too ... but there's a catch.
The Sun
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Proprietors are looking to make the lanes playable so that scores are high.
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We tried to find the best playable resolutions and settings for each game since this is essentially what you, the consumer, will be doing.
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Referee George Cain decided the Bramall Lane pitch was unplayable at a 2pm inspection following persistent rain overnight.
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In the second-half, he was almost unplayable.
The Sun
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The French magician was almost unplayable at times.
The Sun
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Playable levels are encouraged, but commented walkthroughs are acceptable.
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It now features playable Jedi characters , space combat, and new Episode III content.
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More than five years have passed since the last case of cold weather rendering a Premier League pitch unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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FROM totally unacceptable to simply unplayable.
The Sun
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Almost every game playable on a personal computer allows for keyboard control.
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Yamauchi said the team at Polyphony Digital have been working on several different areas of late, including a new physics engine, damage, adding moveable objects on the track (such as destructible tire walls on the Tokyo Route 246 track, playable on the show floor of TGS 2009), as well as the inclusion of hybrid and electrical vehicles into the ever-growing roster of cars.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
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The gunship has a surprising number of playable features including opening troop bay doors, removable command station and healing bacta chamber, movable cannons, spy droids, flick missiles, the speeder bike and multiple sticker decals to create different gunships much like those featured in the Dropship (set 10179).
Professor Strange
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The code for processing an Atom feed is rather cavalier about assuming that summary is displayable text.
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Bessbrook United had a wasted journey to West Belfast when the referee deemed the pitch to be unplayable.
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It's a ridiculously playable resource management game.
The Sun
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Some great playable characters are taken from the back catalogue of games, too.
The Sun
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the baseball fan reached out and caught a foul that was judged playable
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And the Superdome, where the team played its games, was home for thousands of refugees and was so badly damaged by Katrina that it's now considered unplayable and might have to be razed.
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When he's like that, he is virtually unplayable.
The Sun
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abbeyfeale Utd teams enjoyed a free weekend due to bad weather and unplayable pitches.
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But there is again some doubt the pitch will be playable, so Monday has been pencilled in as an alternate date.
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Last season the winger was simply unplayable and scored both goals in a 2-0 win.
The Sun
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The 'squeeze ball', where a player places the ball under his body and then pushes it through his legs, must be playable immediately.
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It was playable, but the pro insists I must play the ball I declared provisional.
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The driving wind and rain made the conditions unplayable on a heavy, sodden surface.
The Sun
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The ground staff worked miracles at Collegiate to make the pitch playable, albeit for a game reduced to 36 overs.
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And he insisted the course was unplayable as huge puddles formed after a heavy downpour.
The Sun
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The device caps displayable content at 100 items.
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In all cases, the pitches were playable.
The Sun
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Indeed, she becomes almost unplayable once she has let her opponent build up a big enough lead.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the frost, the pitch was playable.
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Still this course is eminently playable and so flat with lush fairways that it is usually a pleasure to walk, today proved no different, wet and soggy but cool and pleasant.
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The microscopic images are not displayable as such and need to be rendered into three-dimensional models.
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Brilliantly designed, very realistic and, despite being a tad tricky to master at first, incredibly playable.
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It puts them quickly on the offensive, but always with the padlock secure at the back and Portsmouth found them unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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At times his strength, pace and power make him almost unplayable.
The Sun
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The frame rate in general is pretty solid most of the time, although there are instances, such as when boulders roll in front of you, that the game is darn near unplayable for a few seconds or so.
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After an hour and 16 minutes of delay, umpire-in-chief Dave Phillips decided the field was unplayable, and called the second game.
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However, at 10 am it was deemed unplayable and with little likelihood of a thaw the match was called off.
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Despite the frost, the pitch was playable.
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A short-rising ball from Farmer was unplayable by the batsman and the match ended as a draw with the scores tied.
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You can also turn captured enemies into playable characters for your side.
Times, Sunday Times
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The course is tough, but very playable.
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To succeed, entrepreneurs who are building networked systems based on user content (be they citizens of Second Life or the makers of virtual worlds themselves) must realize that anything displayable is copyable; the value lies instead in service and in server-side functionality.
How a disabled entrepreneur gets a Second shot at Life
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I've recently been doing best practice reviews for how publishers are using playable, downloadable and subscribable media and the verdict is that even the best of the efforts by traditional publishers is abysmal compared to the best of the pure play new media companies.
What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0
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New Zealand Story undoubtedly holds its own on the Master System - it's extremely playable and very amusing.
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He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
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It might at one time have been a lute or a gittern or some such thing; there was no trace at all of its original finish, nor its strings or tuning pegs, and it had probably not been playable for centuries.
Storm Breaking
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Displayable data may include a number of calories burned, number of repetitions, and the like.
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YES, but at times he was unplayable.
The Sun
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I started noticing a small wave of a new kind of book : highly displayable coffee-table books about the display of books.
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The game looks absolutely amazing, but it's not very playable.
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It supported 1 to 2 players, packed eight playable Mario-verse characters, and offered three championship cups divvied into three distinct 'kart' classes.
Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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In many cases, its playable image quality surpassed the GeForce 6800 Ultra thanks to its superior fill rate and memory bandwidth.
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The carefully constructed record collection with displayable album cover art is little more than a quaint anachronism for the twenty-year-olds of 2003.
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The drainage system has proved to be very successful and kept the pitch playable throughout the winter period.
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The pitch was flat, the outfield playable and the rickety old stands were operational.
The Sun
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It was dry within minutes and perfectly playable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the third consecutive game in inclement weather at Heinz Field, including tropical-like rain that fell throughout Pittsburgh's 3-0 victory over Miami on Nov. 26 and left a newly sodded field nearly unplayable.
USATODAY.com
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An entire third of the campaign is now playable. The cinematics and structure are under heavy work at the moment, and we should anticipate more later in the year.
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To put down new turf and have it playable within two weeks is very demanding.
The Sun
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After all of 10 seconds at the ground, it was obvious that large parts of the pitch were unplayable.
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At times he was unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, in writing for mallet percussion, non percussionist composers tend to compose at a piano keyboard resulting in numerous passages easily playable by ten fingers, yet often unplayable with four mallets.
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To put down new turf and have it playable within two weeks is very demanding.
The Sun
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Napster requires you to log into your account with a portable player at least once a month, or the songs become unplayable.
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It was playable last fall, but we're waiting until this year to open it up to the public.
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In almost unplayable conditions Blackburn produced their worst performance of the season against local rivals Bolton.
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The major flaws come with no online game play and the unresponsive controls can almost make the game unplayable at times.
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The hitter cracks a deep fly ball, playable down the left field line.
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He proposes to move 30,000 yards of dirt to create a more playable hole.
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harpsichord music is readily playable
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I tried to persuade the referee that it was still playable, but he wouldn't have any of it.
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The gallery said the damage will always remain under the surface of the work but it had now been conserved to "displayable condition".
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These are solid, playable lines, and their study may benefit the black player, because most of their opponents prep more for the lines with a king bishop fianchetto.
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I have LPs, EPs, battered 78s, reissues, and foreign imports, from the pristine and unplayed to the almost unplayable.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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It puts them quickly on the offensive, but always with the padlock secure at the back and Portsmouth found them unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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the golf ball was in an unplayable lie
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There are beautiful pieces of wearable and displayable art for sale.
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Some of the images and video on thus web site have been created by the author, others come from friends, public domain files, are used with permission, embedded from the original web site, or are legally displayable thumbnails.
Discuss
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Heavy overnight rain had threatened the fixture but some of Kendal's players swept off the standing water and made the pitch playable.
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After the attacks of 11 September, harmless songs were deemed unplayable, flags are deemed obligatory by some and offensive by others, paintings painted years ago are removed from gallery walls.
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The surface was playable but a sodden pitch ensured passes either held up in standing water or skidded off the wet.
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Perhaps the limits are pushed on occasion, but making grass tough, pretty, and playable is what they do.
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It's playable in short durations, with dozens of brief levels.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Unfortunately, when the lute arrives it will be mostly untunable and unplayable.
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When Tchaikovsky played his First Piano Concerto for Nikolay Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatoire, Rubinstein attacked it as worthless, trite and unplayable.
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The winner of the trick leads to the next trick, by first playing any sevens he has and claiming them as tricks and then leading a playable card.
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There were also two playable eight letter words.
Times, Sunday Times
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As soon as he blew the whistle for half-time, referee Mr McNamara consulted with his linesmen and the two managers, decided the pitch was unplayable and abandoned proceedings.
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Combine its sealed modules to create sounds, playable on the included keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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We played through a section of this level to ensure that our settings were playable in other graphic-intensive environments.
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To borrow cricketing parlance he was unplayable for this almost perfect period of play.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I have the displayable image ready, I watermark it and upload it to my various galleries.
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Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.
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When he played on Sunday he said the gusts were so strong that the course was unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
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The striker was simply unplayable.
The Sun
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This is a real-time strategic war game with absolutely fantastic graphics, only it's not quite playable yet.
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The baseball fan reached out and caught a foul that was judged playable.
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When there is that extra dead money out there, it is simply terrible to give two people free rides, and the small blind a cheap look, when you have a playable hand in best position.
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Most golfers today expect every square foot of the golf course to be manicured and playable.
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The pitch was flat, the outfield playable and the rickety old stands were operational.
The Sun
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It was dry within minutes and perfectly playable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not as displayable as a silver candy dish and I am afraid that people will think I'm crazy if they know that I've kept your stained gown and hold it up to my face and finger the flossy tie strings.
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The results included manicured fairways that were extremely playable and visually attractive, with tighter striping for television.
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Just 10 feet in from the edge of the native grass stand is playable because the area received no water.
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The pitch was flat, the outfield playable and the rickety old stands were operational.
The Sun
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Currently, we are working on a playable demo for potential publishers.
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Poor Pyotr never had things easy in life, and his work was at first damned as ‘worthless, unplayable and clumsy’ - and that was from the intended dedicatee, Nikolai Rubinstein.
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But the bottom six inches in some places is almost unplayable.
The Sun
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Slow drop in pitches where dibbly dobblers can look unplayable, more rain interruptions than hot meals, gale force winds disturbing bowler's run-ups and grounds that don't have any practice nets, because they are primarily rugby stadiums, are just some of the conditions to which this young Indian camp must quickly adjust.
Cricket365
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Bumper is a very playable pinball game where you control the flippers on a virtual pinball machine.
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In cup/shield games the match reverts to the away teams ground if the home pitch is unplayable.
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Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.
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Were two clubs in Liverpool to share a pitch, under the prevailing climatic conditions along the Mersey, the surface would swiftly become all but unplayable.
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the field was unplayable
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Music copyists have the often thankless job of transcribing the composer's score and ongoing edits to new playable scores.
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He showed critical moments of indecision against playable lobs, allowing them to drop instead into the back corners from which he was forced into defensive play.
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WHAT has happened to the winger from last season who at times was unplayable for opposing full-backs?
The Sun
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It was showery and very windy but surprisingly the pitch was playable.
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Current playable songs number only in the hundreds.
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He tended to bowl too wide at times but from time to time would produce the unplayable ball.
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If in the view of one side or one person the ground is unplayable and the game goes ahead, then you play an uninsured game, which could be more of a concern.
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My goal now is to build the most playable guitar possible.
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This game is designed to be the most playable mobile soccer game.
