How to Use playing field in a Sentence

playing field

noun
  • The bullpens are in right field with the A’s pitchers camped out in the pen closest to the playing field.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • That moment in the film, the montage, puts Celie and Shug on the same playing field.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The court in 1985 dealt a blow to big banks seeking a coast-to-coast playing field.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The vehicle was used to smooth clumped dirt on the playing field.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But in the world of high school sports, there’s still an uneven playing field.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Search on the open web is the best playing field to accomplish this feat.
    Quora, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Tweed said the answer is more likely be found in the locker room and not the playing field.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • So began the wait for the brothers to truly share a playing field.
    Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
  • His lawyer said this was an effort by the chief to level the playing field.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 23 July 2022
  • The playing field clearly is not level — and hasn’t been for decades.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And the idea behind these laws is to level the playing field a little bit.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The changes in strategy didn’t level the playing field.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Even when not on the playing field, the young woman continued to fall and hit her head.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Most of them came straight from the playing field to the big league coaching staff and then to manager.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • By the fourth quarter, Ohio State leveled the playing field by tying the score.
    Megan Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • One of the things that always concerned me is the uneven playing field, right?
    Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Norman says the tariffs were pitched as a way to even the playing field with China.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • But the Olympics have helped refugees find a temporary home back on the playing field, and in each other.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2021
  • So, the story of the game had to be Hamlin’s successful return to the NFL playing field.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • They cannot be placed anywhere inside the playing field.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Some Jim Crow-loving fans threw rocks and black cats onto the playing field.
    Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The wall is basically an extension of the playing field, the front part of the wall is.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • But fans didn't think the performances were on an equal playing field.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The game is played with two teams of three players each on a playing field the size of a volleyball court.
    oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The team’s playoff chances took a big hit without stepping foot on the playing field.
    Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Hollins made a full recovery and returned to the playing field last year.
    Wset Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Surely, the Olympics has joys that happen off the playing field, but that’s not why people go.
    Angela Watercutter, Wired, 23 July 2021
  • There’s the desire to quickly even the playing field and not fall behind by two games right out of the gate in a best-of-7 series.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 May 2024
  • So, the playing field, right from the beginning, is not level.
    Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • And MrBeast seems eager to continue his push onto athletic playing fields.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 1 Dec. 2024

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