How to Use playa in a Sentence

playa

noun

• So what caused the rocks to drag themselves across the playa?
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
• The Porta Potties don't leave the playa when the event ends.
  — Jenny Kane, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
• The playa needs to be firm enough for heavy trucks to drive on and airplanes to land on.
  — Jenny Kane, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
• There were maybe 5,000 people left on the playa at that point.
  — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2023
• Rare snowmelt from the Granite Range, also north of the playa, added to the flooding.
  — Jenny Kane, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
• You're not supposed to throw anything away on the playa.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
• The temporary city is built in a dry lake bed, or playa.
  — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2017
• About 12 miles east of Gerlach is the entry to the desert playa, where the pavement ends and the dust begins.
  — Jenny Kane, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2017
• After dark, a group of us biked out to see the glowing art scattered around the playa.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• From Tony Bravo: The Burn of the playa, no camping required.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Read more about wheelchairs on the playa and what to expect in terms of access: bit.ly/gettingaroundBurningMan.
  — Yomi S. Wrong, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
• In the months after the Burn, a special restoration team sweeps the playa, raking any Moop out of the dust.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Restoring the Great Salt Lake and controlling the dust blown off the exposed lakebed and playa.
  — sltrib.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• The playa is a source of dust that could worsen air pollution.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2023
• The vehicle is stored in nearby Gerlach when it’s not on the playa.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2021
• This begins by taking a right onto the playa at the 12-mile marker out on Route 34.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2021
• Pay the fee and enjoy a soak under the stars after driving around on the playa — no speed limit.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• But there is, increasingly, a lot of money on the playa.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
• As a sign, perhaps, that things would be okay, a rainbow arched across the playa Saturday.
  — Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Elisabeth pointed across the playa at a swirling beige cloud that was coming our way.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023
• The Black Rock Desert is also home to a popular site for land speed records, a place called the playa or alkali flats.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
• At Burning Man, there are millions of lights that shine on the playa, but there are two that are perhaps the most important.
  — Jenny Kane, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
• Other art cars on the playa were newer, flashier, faster, outfitted with more lasers.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2021
• The megadrought roiling the western United States is responsible for the rest of the deficit, which has left more playa to explore.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Thursday night after Diplo’s set, news of rain clouded the playa glow.
  — Asli Pelit, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Burning Man participant) could want — on or off the playa.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• There were, however, others who stayed to lend a hand — the atrocious state of the playa notwithstanding.
  — Morena Duwe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Panhandle is wetter than normal, leaving the region's playa lakes in good shape.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
• Patches of standing water on the playa made leaving the site close to impossible for many.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Experiments with new payment forms on the playa hint at future value exchanges.
  — Sarah Davanzo, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024