1 We always felt she was playacting.

2 She playacted the movements of a burglar.

3 It was just a piece of play-acting.

4 The students will be delighted to playact the life of farmers.

5 He thought she was play-acting but in fact she had really hurt herself.

6 He was playacting again.

7 What Yeroen hoped to gain by his play-acting is not clear, though it may have helped to defuse further aggression.

8 I was no longer responsible for the pretending, the elaborate play-acting.

9 Instead of plays being acted by the city craftsmen once a year, we've made a craft of play-acting.

10 Ethnography of moralities doesn't deliberately playact itself as an upstart of anthropology; instead, it highlights problem awareness.

11 Don't take any notice of him - he's just playacting.