How to Use hopscotch in a Sentence

hopscotch

1 of 2 noun
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  • Check out the gardens, the front doors and porches, the hopscotch games, the weeds.
    — Bill McAuliffe, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • One bird twists his way up and down as if playing a game of hopscotch on the branch.
    — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There were endless hands of cards and games of hopscotch and freeze tag on the terrace.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 5 July 2020
  • Davies’ Roxy gig kicked off a 16-date U.S. hopscotch that will run through late April.
    — Fred Schruers, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Draw creative designs or use the chalk to play games such as tic-tac-toe or hopscotch.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 6 May 2022
  • In the 30-second spot, a young girl is sitting in front of her house, drawing a hopscotch course with chalk.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Set up a relay course around trees, pair up for three-legged races, or draw out a hopscotch court on the pavement.
    — Amy Roberts, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2011
  • Two girls played hopscotch at the entrance to a park, and children’s voices rang through the greenery.
    — Sophia Moskalenko, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • That’s why there was a Kids Zone beyond the right-field fence, with hopscotch and chalk, and a Wiffle Ball field beyond the fence in left.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • To get into any plot details past this point is to play hopscotch in a minefield.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • With other friends from the neighborhood, Anne and I rode scooters, played hopscotch and pushed hoops with a stick.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • But what sticks out the most is the eerie quiet of a place once packed with rambunctious kids playing tag, hopscotch, and jump rope.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 10 May 2020
  • Patel said the troop will return in the spring to add lettering, put in a hopscotch court and do some painting on the walkway.
    — cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The North Building features fish and turtles, and the playground at the heart of the park is a huge hit with a giant chess gameboard, hopscotch and plenty more.
    — Brian Sodoma, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2019
  • Abou Amadou's children play hopscotch in the sand outside his compound in the village of Chadakori in southern Niger.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In our neighborhood, kids played stoop ball, hopscotch and stickball, with a broomstick.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • On Sunday afternoon, children jumped from square to square, playing hopscotch atop the mice, as the structure creaked.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Kids young and old can join in the variety of games including hopscotch, croquet and kid’s fishing.
    — Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 July 2019
  • But the supercomputer race is nothing if not a game of hopscotch.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2018
  • Around the world, children have learned to swap their hopscotch, jump rope and basketball for scavenger hunts using windows.
    — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The former is muscular hopscotch, a change of direction that is as quick as a crossover is in shaming a card shark's shuffle.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • That’d be true for any sports franchise now, baseball, football, soccer, hopscotch.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
  • The first graders of Escalante Elementary School lined up Monday along the yellow hopscotch grids painted on the sidewalk.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Filled with jump ropes, hopscotch boards and ice-cream trucks, this joyful story transports kids to the care-free summers in Brooklyn that the legendary author had growing up.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Hamlet leaping around the stage like a child playing hopscotch, or the chorus lined up and facing forward, rigid as automatons.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 May 2022
  • If everyone goes at it alone, the developments will be hopscotch.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Though playing on the tennis team or taking gymnastics are likely to be as good for the brain as for the body, so are riding bikes, tossing a frisbee and playing hopscotch.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Other new additions are tether ball courts, a hopscotch area — or fitness walk — and racing lanes for children.
    — Hank Beckman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022
  • On Friday, do the Show off Your Legs workout along with 30 minutes of fun cardio — like skipping rope, playing hopscotch or skateboarding!
    — Seventeen Magazine, Seventeen, 18 May 2009
  • The cheery sight reminded Manasseh of watching Grant’s three children play hopscotch on chalk drawings and getting face paintings with their mother, who never let them out of her sight.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
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hopscotch

2 of 2 verb
  • The tour hopscotched from city to city.
  • We hopscotched across the country.
  • The Dalys have spent the better part of the past two months hopscotching the globe.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
  • The plan, in a nutshell, is to hopscotch from Earth to the moon to Mars over several decades.
    — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The top four candidates have been hopscotching from one big Texas city to the next.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2020
  • One class with just three students played hopscotch six feet apart.
    — Melody Petersen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Nicole Zhao, 38, was one of many who had to wend, dodge, and hopscotch their way through barriers that had been set up on the roads.
    — Austin Ramzy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • For more than a week, the mock battles spanned day and night, hopscotching the length of NATO’s eastern flank.
    — Laura King, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • Teams also hopscotch the country in the spring to assess college prospects before the N.F.L. draft.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The top four candidates already have been hopscotching from big Texas city to the next.
    — Johnathan Tilove, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Music humming through the speakers hopscotched over decades from song to song.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But instead of doing all of this while hopscotching from place to place in life, I'm grounded.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2018
  • The couple’s French bulldog, Stella, has hopscotched the country with them.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The team fished Pickwick's mid-lake area from the bridge to Waterloo, hopscotching from spot to spot, though bass were few and far between.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 5 July 2017
  • Whether Greitens will follow through with plans to hopscotch around Missouri over the next week to sell his tax cut plan is not clear.
    — Jason Hancock, Bryan Lowry and Lindsay Wise, kansascity, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Herman and his staff spent the last few weeks hopscotching from city to city for one final meeting with prospective Longhorns.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • In fairness, for all of its exploding rats, this genre-hopscotching epic had to give us something sweet.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 5 July 2019
  • Distances in Rajasthan are large, so the best way to hopscotch between these spots is to book a tour with a specialist like Red Savannah.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a backpack on another, a pair of basketball players and hopscotch squares in the distance.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2020
  • Negga was cast in Loving and Preacher at around the same time, and her last two years have been spent hopscotching between obligations.
    — Thomas Beller, Town & Country, 26 June 2017
  • Negga was cast in Loving and Preacher at around the same time, and her last two years have been spent hopscotching between obligations.
    — Thomas Beller, Town & Country, 26 June 2017
  • As Locksley taken a more holistic view of the offense while hopscotching from one meeting to the other, Enos has set up shop in the room that is home to the most important players on the field.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Emily Speed, 27, hopscotched through five cities and companies before landing in the corps de ballet of the Colorado Ballet.
    — Mark Jaffe, The Know, 17 Feb. 2017
  • And the long, leisurely days of summer (even if the kids are hopscotching across Baltimore for a hodge-podge of camps, like my three are) heighten the aggravation factor even more.
    — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 June 2017
  • The novel coronavirus has quickly hopscotched from a food market in China around the world, to small towns in northern Italy and a major pilgrimage site in Iran.
    — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Storr hopscotches over the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to arrive at Freud.
    — Gal Beckerman, The New Republic, 7 May 2018
  • The first-year owner of the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans is in the middle of a crazy three-week stretch hopscotching the country in support of her various sports interests.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 2 May 2018
  • To work there, the researchers buried barrels of fuel along the snowy coastline, creating makeshift depots that a helicopter could hopscotch between.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
  • By hopscotching hut to hut, a hiker or skier can complete a 50-mile jaunt at Hatcher Pass through some remarkable terrain.
    — Mike Campbell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2017
  • That strategy helped Delta rapidly outstrip several of its wilier but more sluggish competitors and hopscotch across the globe.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021

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