How to Use field of play in a Sentence
field of play
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And this year, a kickoff can be fair caught in the field of play and placed on the 25.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
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Rangers pitchers either couldn’t find the strike zone or couldn’t keep the ball in the field of play.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
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Travis Kelce is considering how to gain yards on a new field of play.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
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In each game, data mining has upended the field of play.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2011
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Police in West Yorkshire said in a statement that the man, who was not named, was charged with assault and entering the field of play.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
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When the head coach requests a timeout for replay review, the replay challenge flag must be dropped onto the field of play.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
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Judge's catch may have prevented a run from scoring, but Muncy was awarded second base because Judge left the field of play to snag the ball.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
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Over its three decades, Camden Yards has been a stadium unlike any other, and that now applies to its field of play.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
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As players are eliminated, the field of play gets smaller and updates go out with how each person was killed.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
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In baseball, the events on the field of play matter less than the assignments of responsibility and the judgments of praise – and blameworthiness.
—Alva Noë, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
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Among the tapestry of high-level issues on the table at this week’s SEC spring meetings, field of play incursion is getting at least some of the Destin oxygen.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
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The practice is well documented throughout baseball history but is generally confined to the players and the field of play.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 4 May 2024
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The longest-running melodrama in sports is less about events on the field of play than on machinations in the ownership suite of baseball’s Oakland A’s, who are close to finalizing a move to Las Vegas three or four years from now.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
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American colleges have played a critical part in the country’s economic success by nurturing talent that is not only well-prepared in the classroom but also on the field of play.
—Christopher Ramsey, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
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Their only opponent in the field of play is intolerance, according to Special Olympics Indiana.
—Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
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Over time, players imagined new uses for the cards, radically expanding the field of play to include occult interpretation, artistic elaboration and fortunetelling.
—Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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