How to Use field of play in a Sentence

field of play

noun phrase
  • By rule, the ball does not have to touch a fan who breaches the field of play.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The challenge was to find a solution for the field of play.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But getting the devices into the field of play took years of work.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Rangers pitchers either couldn’t find the strike zone or couldn’t keep the ball in the field of play.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And this year, a kickoff can be fair caught in the field of play and placed on the 25.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • But Betts had clearly caught the ball in the field of play when fans reached over to try to take it away.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Travis Kelce is considering how to gain yards on a new field of play.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Amid a cauldron of noise, Messi was off the bench and onto the field of play.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • Even back then, though, his field of play seemed to be gradually narrowing.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 June 2025
  • By August, however, the field of play had grown more complex.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Heraskevych never made it to the field of play — not in competition, anyway.
    — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Heraskevych never made it to the field of play — not in competition, anyway.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Both players were badly affected by the knock and left the field of play after a long delay.
    — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Many sports bodies try to balance inclusion for all athletes and fairness to all on the field of play.
    — Forbes, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The rule will also apply to any team official who incites players to leave the field of play in protest.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Despite such resistance, women have excelled on the field of play in Paris.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Brown was already off the field of play when Sirianni sprinted toward him.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • As players are eliminated, the field of play gets smaller and updates go out with how each person was killed.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Possession of the ball was lost and Smith never established control back in the field of play.
    — Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The game was temporarily delayed in the seventh inning while a drone hovered near the left field wall in the field of play.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The baseball appeared to hit a chair just beyond the outfield wall and ricocheted off a cup and back into the field of play.
    — Kansas City Star, 5 July 2025
  • Those advances are gradually trickling down from the ownership suite to the field of play.
    — Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • When the head coach requests a timeout for replay review, the replay challenge flag must be dropped onto the field of play.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • The most obvious is that it was ruled that Trout ventured into the stands, and that the fan did not reach into the field of play.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This early in the season, we’re conditioned to wave away any results on the field of play as just the product of a small sample.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Part of bracing for the foreseeable future meant understanding the field of play.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Never before has there been full parity on the field of play, with an equal number of men and women competing.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Players deploy them by dragging and dropping them on the field of play and the units fight automatically.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • When a spectator clearly prevents a fielder from catching a fly ball by reaching onto the field of play, the batter shall be ruled out.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Over its three decades, Camden Yards has been a stadium unlike any other, and that now applies to its field of play.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023

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