How to Use hide-and-seek in a Sentence
hide-and-seek
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Finding her brave can still be a game of hide-and-seek, Lloyd said.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
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Bed bugs are resilient little jerks who play the world's worst game of hide-and-seek.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2023
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Bed bugs are resilient little jerks who play the world's worst game of hide-and-seek.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
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The helicopter brought the couple to a winery where Jenn and Jonathan played hide-and-seek and took a dip in the hot tub.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
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Humphrey, his four siblings, and their fifteen cousins roamed the neighborhood and played hide-and-seek and other games.
—Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
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During the last five weeks, people have been shot for opening the wrong car door, knocking on the wrong house door and playing hide-and-seek in the wrong yard.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
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In these games the focus can instead be on parkour, role-playing, escape rooms and hide-and-seek.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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The release said children had been playing hide-and-seek in the area and hiding on David V. Doyle’s property.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
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Sarah Boone told authorities her boyfriend got trapped in a suitcase and died during a game of hide-and-seek.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
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Ruben teaches Julian how to mimic a zebra’s bark and plays hide-and-seek with him at a bush breakfast.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2024
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Apple AirTags weren’t designed for an elaborate game of hide-and-seek.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 21 Nov. 2023
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Apple AirTags weren’t designed for an elaborate game of hide-and-seek.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2024
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Apple AirTags weren’t designed for an elaborate game of hide-and-seek.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2024
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The instructors played hide-and-seek during their first walk-through together, I was told.
—Catherine Porter Dmitry Kostyukov, New York Times, 16 May 2024
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He was also seen hanging out in Oscar’s trash can and playing hide-and-seek with Elmo.
—Kara Warner, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
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Think: Behavior training, games like fetch or hide-and-seek, or food puzzles.
—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 15 July 2024
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Geyser, along with her co-defendant Anissa Weier, lured Leutner into the woods during a sleepover in 2014 to play hide-and-seek.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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None of the children were allowed to play hide-and-seek, nor were a brother-sister pair ever allowed to be in a room alone without a third to chaperone.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
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In the end, Higdon returns to a game of hide-and-seek that’s both playful and mournful, with strings that sag like willows and a low mist of returning/departing chimes.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
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This celestial hide-and-seek will last for about an hour, depending on your location.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Kids can also get creative by turning the lower section into a secluded fort or a lair for hide-and-seek.
—Heather Balogh Rochfort, Parents, 18 May 2024
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After 25 million games, the AI agents playing hide-and-seek with each other had mastered four basic game strategies.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2019
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And now the game of submarine hide-and-seek may be approaching the point at which submarines can no longer elude detection and simply disappear.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2022
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The sequence opens with Loughlin dressed in a sailor dress and pigtails, with exaggerated freckles drawn on her face, playing hide-and-seek.
—John Russell, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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A couple of years later, my parents and brother moved to central Illinois, where I was born and grew up riding my bike through creeks and playing hide-and-seek in cornfields.
—Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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The whimsical bath toys are popping up all over the place on cruise ships thanks to a massive, unofficial game of hide-and-seek… and everyone is invited.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
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Detectives later arrived at the scene and learned several children were playing hide-and-seek in the area and were hiding on the neighbor’s property.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
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The structure is replete with both low-level nooks-and-crannies for hide-and-seek and strategically placed boulders and ropes for adventurous climbers to scramble to the top.
—oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
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Their kids navigate their trauma from Oct. 7 by being with each other, playing hide-and-seek and making fortresses.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
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Before the drinking begins, Jenn and Jonathon enjoy a playful afternoon, doing cartwheels and playing hide-and-seek in the vineyard.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
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