play along

Verb

Meaning

perform an accompaniment to

cooperate or pretend to cooperate

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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. Dean Koontz

I've tried to make myself comfortable with most of the fretboard as possible. I like pentatonic scales because I've always been a big Tony Iommi fan. I play along with those a lot. I grew up playing a lot of heavy metal; I'm probably better at that than playing Fall Out Boy. Joe Trohman

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs. Eddie Vedder

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. John Hodgman

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song. Carrie Brownstein

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it. Paul Quantrill

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