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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The playing field clearly is not level — and hasn’t been for decades.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 game is played with two teams of three players each on a playing field the size of a volleyball court.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But the odds of all of them succeeding on their playing field of choice is high given their DNA.
    — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • But around 2017, with my Gumbo album, the playing field started to even [out].
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • These instincts are key not just on the playing field but in everyday life.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This should level the playing field a bit for Switzerland, although Brazil are still 2:1 favorites to win the match.
    — cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • And, to a degree, the playing field has changed since the extension window opened July 1.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Yet the challenge remains for Jones to use his tremendous resources to help level the playing field.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Frankly, however, baseball games are won on the playing field.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Your donation to Bread for the City can level the playing field for people who need legal help.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The upshot is a playing field increasingly tilted in the U.S.
    — David Uberti, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The Elliott School oers an unmatched playing field to pursue both.
    — Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2023
  • An antitrust exemption isn’t the only way to level the playing field.
    — Benjamin Wofford, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This is a way of leveling the playing field between two cars of different speeds.
    — WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The playing field may change — musical trends, who my colleagues are, or what the perceptions of me are — all those things will be in flux.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • With both parties angling for the smallest of edges, changes to voting rules and to the playing field of elections often end up in court.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Heading into the big night, Avatar and The Hurt Locker had each racked up enough precursor awards to level the playing field.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Tom Brady will not go immediately from the playing field to the broadcast booth.
    — Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And that, of course, has gotten even crazier now that the streaming playing field is a little bit leveling.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024

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