How to Use have a field day in a Sentence

have a field day

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  • This isn’t one of them; Dak Prescott should have a field day.
    Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Reddit day-traders will have a field day with this one.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Oct. 2020
  • So it’s not far fetched to assume that whiskey Twitter will have a field day with this.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
  • Tech companies, both large and small, can have a field day in the Big Apple.
    Brad Thomas, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Parents will have a field day filling this and kids will enjoy it just as much.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Cincinnati’s offense will have a field day feasting on the dirty birds Sunday.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Oddly, traders still managed to have a field day dodging in and out of shares of the bankrupt company.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The defensive ends should have a field day against the NFL’s worst offensive tackle pairing.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Fido will have a field day at this doggie beachside paradise.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2022
  • The Consumer Product Safety Commission would have a field day, too.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The show has received plenty of it, from dark jokes about how Sigmund Freud would have a field day to viral clips posted to social media.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
  • If he gets indicted, Repubs are going to have a field day blaming his father for the son’s misdeeds.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Still, going against what was one of the worst rushing defenses in college football in 2019, Army’s triple-option attack is in line to have a field day.
    Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
  • If an unheard-of Lumberjacks team could have a field day against Arizona, then Oregon’s prospect of lighting it up on Saturday should be very good, to say the least.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Although the Frog defense should have a field day, inconsistency has plagued the Cyclones this season.
    Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • While Dickinson will likely have a field day down low, U-M hasn't fared well in close games all year, and a shocking end would be fitting in a season that never got on track.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That biodiversity hardens urban ecosystems against pests that would have a field day with a monocrop.
    WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Armchair psychologists tend to have a field day at points of crisis in Netanyahu’s political career, of which there have been many.
    Dina Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • Would Trump and Republicans have a field day attacking Democratic insiders for pulling a fast one on the public?
    Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • What's more, because magnification ranges from 4.5x all the way up to a whopping 30x, long-range shooters can have a field day on the range and the ability to reach out with shots unattainable with many less-powerful scopes.
    Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2020
  • And while that’s bad news for countless people and businesses who have invested in cryptocurrencies, the legal profession is about to have a field day.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • And too much emphasis on the ground attack would leave redshirt sophomore quarterback Spencer Sanders to have a field day with Wallace, who already has 401 receiving yards and two touchdowns in four games.
    Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Freud would have a field day with the intersection of the erotic and near-death that come together in these sequences, which Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput edit with an unerring sense of nature’s own percussion.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Humans fall into mental traps known as cognitive distortions all the time, pandemic or not, but oh boy did a few cognitive distortions have a field day in 2020.
    Anna Borges, SELF, 28 Dec. 2020
  • With her ego bruised, possibly gone, the id has stepped in to fill the void and have a field day insulting her friends, soaking up the vacant social media adulation, disregarding advice to get actual support.
    New York Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Fox News and more would have a field day with two of the main characters having campaigned to get their college to divest from fossil fuels, work long supported by prominent environmental non-profits.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Historians would have a field day with the film’s version of that summary coming from a former New York Times reporter and editor, considering the paper’s controversial coverage of the war.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Actors like Ali Stroker (as the twins’ resentful sister) and Karen Robinson (as their hometown’s suspicious sheriff) have a field day by diving headfirst into the show’s drama, delivering each line to register from a mile away.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Wayman suggested that defense attorneys would have a field day asking why investigators had relied on an academic lab—and not the FBI’s examiners.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Wayman suggested that defense attorneys would have a field day asking why investigators had relied on an academic lab—and not the FBI’s examiners.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023

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