How to Use playfield in a Sentence

playfield

noun
  • In the first line, wiring is attached to the playfield.
    Peter Rugg, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2017
  • The playfield took up forty bits, twenty for each half of the screen.
    David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Heck, a wolf was photographed running on the playfields at my son’s middle school.
    Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The addition of the tuj lub courts at Carmen Playfield is in response to how the playfield was being used.
    Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • Which is why, at least two to three times a week, she can be found at a playfield named after a Detroit legend who was once regarded as the fastest human in the world.
    Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The district is still working to resolve an issue stemming from a grant accepted more than 25 years ago by the city of Encinitas and the district to improve the school’s playfields.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
  • Once the designers are sure, the playfield is fabricated and silk screened with graphics onsite.
    Peter Rugg, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Denny Park has been reworked multiple times, with a formal garden and playfield added in 1903.
    Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
  • The backglass and the elements of the playfield reference the Twilight Zone’s iconic opening credits sequence, as well as several of the best episodes.
    Chris Baker, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2007
  • Keyboard Sports, though, puts practically every key on the board to use in a clever way, with the surface of the keyboard serving as an analog for the player's position on the playfield.
    Kyle Orland and Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Most of these involve some frustrating jumping on an ever-scrolling playfield or a bullet-hell-style zig-zag battle in Cuphead's biplane (shown in the above gallery).
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In another mini-game, players must aim a laser at a playfield, allowing you to move around a little robot avatar who follows your laser.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 1 May 2018
  • The 2600’s screen, which the system’s engineers had designated the playfield, functioned like a container.
    David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Police recovered a folding knife with what appeared to be blood on the blade from a nearby playfield where young people were playing flag football, charging papers say.
    Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The group's work has resulted in the park being identified as a priority playfield to renovate.
    Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2020
  • In return, the city would own the stadium and also get a new Lockhart Park with a playground, dog park, fitness area, multipurpose playfield, kickball zone, yoga lawn, walking trail and sprawling open green space.
    Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The playfield's reopening was celebrated with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday.
    Jennifer Sawhney, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • In the incredibly fun arcade version, two to four players chomp pellets and avoid ghosts on the same ever-shifting playfield, racing for power pellets that increase player size and grant the ability to eat opponents.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2017
  • However, some of these products contained insufficient chemical stabilizers to withstand the temperatures in the Los Angeles region and the daily playfield use.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022

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