How to Use playing field in a Sentence
playing field
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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
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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
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The court in 1985 dealt a blow to big banks seeking a coast-to-coast playing field.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
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The vehicle was used to smooth clumped dirt on the playing field.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
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But in the world of high school sports, there’s still an uneven playing field.
—Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2021
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Search on the open web is the best playing field to accomplish this feat.
—Quora, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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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
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So began the wait for the brothers to truly share a playing field.
—Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
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His lawyer said this was an effort by the chief to level the playing field.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 23 July 2022
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And as the labor movement seeks to level the playing field, will the stars go along?
—New York Times, 13 June 2021
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The playing field clearly is not level — and hasn’t been for decades.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
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Two warmup pools would sit on the western portion of the Vikings playing field.
—Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
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There is a lot of movement on the retail playing field.
—Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
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And the idea behind these laws is to level the playing field a little bit.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
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The changes in strategy didn’t level the playing field.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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By the fourth quarter, Ohio State leveled the playing field by tying the score.
—Megan Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
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One of the things that always concerned me is the uneven playing field, right?
—Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
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Norman says the tariffs were pitched as a way to even the playing field with China.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 13 June 2024
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To him, that means no secret spots and a level playing field.
—Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2021
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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
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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
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They cannot be placed anywhere inside the playing field.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
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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
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The wall is basically an extension of the playing field, the front part of the wall is.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
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But fans didn't think the performances were on an equal playing field.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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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
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Tariffs that help even the playing field with countries who have been ripping us off, quite frankly, for generations.
—NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
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Everyone's entitled to a fair shot, not a guarantee, just a fair shot, an even playing field, going as far as your hard work and talent can take you.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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