How to Use hide-and-seek in a Sentence

hide-and-seek

noun
  • Finding her brave can still be a game of hide-and-seek, Lloyd said.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Apple AirTags weren’t designed for an elaborate game of hide-and-seek.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Apple AirTags weren’t designed for an elaborate game of hide-and-seek.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 21 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • He was also seen hanging out in Oscar’s trash can and playing hide-and-seek with Elmo.
    Kara Warner, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • UConn is better than most in this area, actually, but across all sports and levels there’s so much more hide-and-seek nowadays with information fans want.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Parents can help their baby develop visual memory by playing hide-and-seek games with their face or with toys.
    Isabella Balandran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The only problem: her initiation into the family includes a deadly game of hide-and-seek, where her culty in-laws chase her with guns and crossbows.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
  • From there, Starlux created glowing swordplay games, versions of hide-and-seek and Sardines, glowing treasure hunts.
    Shannon Sollitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Lucas benefits from both Menzies’ natural reserve and his ability to show what roils beneath that stoicism, a game of emotive hide-and-seek.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Try some indoor activities, like hide-and-seek with low-calorie treats, fetch or even an interactive obstacle course.
    Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Investigators learned that several children were playing hide-and-seek in the Starks neighborhood and were hiding on the neighbor's property.
    CBS News, 9 May 2023
  • Mariano spoke of playing hide-and-seek, gardening, chess matches, the terrible haircuts Feinstein insisted on giving her — and, of course, the first-hand lessons in San Francisco history.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Further investigation revealed that several minors, who the sheriff’s office identified as neighbors, were playing hide-and-seek in the area and hiding on Doyle's property.
    Claudia Johnson, NBC News, 9 May 2023

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