How to Use schoolyard in a Sentence

schoolyard

noun

• Lines of younger students marched through the halls to the schoolyard.
  — Lee Keath, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• Over the last week, the rhetoric on both sides has sunk to the level of schoolyard taunts.
  — Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2019
• The color scheme is schoolyard—not a pleasure on the eyes.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Aztecs kicked the Rams around the schoolyard and grabbed their lunch money, going on an 18-1 run to end it.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Played with two tiles, the goal of the schoolyard game is to flip one tile, laying on the ground, by slamming it with the other.
  — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 4 Oct. 2021
• The teachers asked six girls from each grade to assemble in the schoolyard.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Enjoy them with friends at the schoolyard or by yourself as a mid-day pick-me-up.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2023
• Officers dispatched to the scene detained the boy in the schoolyard, the statement said.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• The '90s schoolyard must-have is back in fashion—this time with a laptop pocket.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022
• Garcia proved his schoolyard haters wrong, earning four yeses from the judges.
  — USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• During lunch, a group of students gathered in the schoolyard.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• And then there’s just plain old schoolyard bullying and cheap cracks.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The new one at Sunkist Elementary faces the schoolyard courts.
  — Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
• Anyone from the streets to the schoolyard can understand the disdain for that figure.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
• Sports and morning assemblies in the schoolyard have been scrapped.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• This elementary school still bears the name of the 29th president, and, of course, there’s a flagpole in the schoolyard.
  — Philip Potempa, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Avoiding places where a dog is known to be distracted, such as a schoolyard.
  — Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
• The schoolyard is where skaters come together to make work and to support each other.
  — Ian F. Blair, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The schoolyard was filled with parents who had shown up early, who could not wait to wrap arms around their babies.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• That's because she and the next person on our list were not selected for teams on a day 2 schoolyard pick 'em.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The owner of a sawmill fashioned benches made from a pine tree that fell in the schoolyard during the hurricane.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Halle Berry is remembering the time Prince used schoolyard tactics to ask her on a date.
  — EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
• In the closing minutes of tonight’s perhaps overly hyped debate, the mask on the schoolyard status of this race fell off.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 June 2024
• Patrick Mahomes is the kid in the schoolyard, scrambling around to buy time before chucking it downfield.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2021
• Walls were blasted and debris scattered in the schoolyard, where some cars were damaged.
  — Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
• Whereas Gay described the fight between the girls as a schoolyard dust-up, Schwartz painted it as a planned attack.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• That’s in addition to Tango, 14 chickens in the schoolyard coop and Penny, the ball python in Dr. Paz’s office.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
• Sharing Elden Ring secrets like a kid on the schoolyard can even become part of the game's appeal—for the right kind of player.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• This is the moral equivalent of a schoolyard bully telling you to stop hitting yourself.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
• Instead, Walz tried an old schoolyard tactic — casting the bully and his gang as weirdos.
  — Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024