What is "come into play"

Usage examples of "come into play".

Craters with slumped walls, with modest depth-to-diameter ratios, with fine particles accumulated in their interiors tend to be more ancient, because they had to be around long enough for these erosive processes to come into play.

Yet for the most part we cannot know how deliberate choices will eventually interact with one another or how chance events will come into play, for there are too many, the pattern too complex, to have certainty in the outcome.

But the majority of the colonists would have to have their expertise in areas that would come into play after landfall: medical skills, computer skills, robotics, systems design, architecture, geology, biosphere design, genetic engineering, biology.

Black opinions and black interpretations of the book's main character come into play relatively late, I might add, and with a great deal of understandable bitterness.

Unlike missiles, these require direct hits, but by the time they come into play, their target is normally steadying down for its final attack run, which gives them much simpler fire solutions.

There was now little chance that the British would manage to break their way into the huge building, where the hand-to-hand combat skills of the two brothers would come into play.

Close to any object, safety systems would come into play and steer clear of collision.

I will relate truly and naturally the great story, but then vanity must come into play,—.

But one expects to see gore and blood when pulsers come into play.

You know, a place where none of your senses can come into play because there's nothing there for them to sense.

I was scarce twelve years old before that part which she wanted so much to keep out of harm's way made me feel its impatience to be taken notice of, and come into play: al-ready had it put forth the signs of forwardness in the sprout of a soft down over it, which had often flatter'd, and I might also say, grown under my constant touch and visitation, so pleas'd was I with what I took to be a kind of title to womanhood, that state I pin'd to be entr'd of, for the pleasures I conceiv'd were annexed to it.

The best job is impossible to define, given that jobs turn out to be good or bad depending on a dozen factors that come into play only after you start the job.

The thudding of massive impacts and screams and shrieks of animal rage and pain filled the universe, but the company's bead rifles were finally able to come into play in the melee.

But the inaccuracy for which long-range MDM fire had become justly famed had come into play, and “.