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 -
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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