How to Use playing field in a Sentence

playing field

noun
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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
  • 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
  • By the fourth quarter, Ohio State leveled the playing field by tying the score.
    — Megan Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Norman says the tariffs were pitched as a way to even the playing field with China.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most important to the 39-year-old is for men and women to be on a level playing field.
    — Jonathan Hawkins and Zain Asher, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
  • These instincts are key not just on the playing field but in everyday life.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2023
  • There is a bomb shelter just a few yards from the playing field, but residents said there wasn’t enough time to reach it.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 28 July 2024
  • Even those maps, however, wouldn't be enough to level the playing field, which is where New York comes in.
    — David Daley, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The ease of setting up an ecommerce store has made the playing field dynamic.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Democrats are defending a razor-thin majority, a task made all the more difficult by a playing field that leans in Republicans’ direction.
    — CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • This helps tremendously to limit the playing field somewhat while still accounting for a wide and fascinating variety of watches for the interested collector.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2024

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