How to Use playfield in a Sentence

playfield

noun
  • The playfield took up forty bits, twenty for each half of the screen.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • There’s also a gong bash target near the middle right of the playfield.
    — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Heck, a wolf was photographed running on the playfields at my son’s middle school.
    — Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The project will feature 14 acres of open space, including plazas, playfields, and a long bike path.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Wick's car in the extended position blocking part of the playfield.
    — Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
  • Once the designers are sure, the playfield is fabricated and silk screened with graphics onsite.
    — Peter Rugg, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2017
  • No single player would succeed for long if the collective playfield restricted team play.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
  • The addition of the tuj lub courts at Carmen Playfield is in response to how the playfield was being used.
    — Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • Which is why, at least two to three times a week, she can be found at a playfield named after a Detroit legend who was once regarded as the fastest human in the world.
    — Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The group's work has resulted in the park being identified as a priority playfield to renovate.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The blacktop play space increased with the removal of old portable buildings and better access was created to connect to the playfields.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Police recovered a folding knife with what appeared to be blood on the blade from a nearby playfield where young people were playing flag football, charging papers say.
    — Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Denny Park has been reworked multiple times, with a formal garden and playfield added in 1903.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
  • The project is part of a larger effort by Milwaukee Recreation to update 52 playfields throughout the city.
    — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most of these involve some frustrating jumping on an ever-scrolling playfield or a bullet-hell-style zig-zag battle in Cuphead's biplane (shown in the above gallery).
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The playfield's reopening was celebrated with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday.
    — Jennifer Sawhney, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • That’s on the smaller side for commercial pinball tables and maps to playfield bumpers that are just 53 mm wide—way smaller than any prebuilt bumpers that are commercially available.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
  • The district is still working to resolve an issue stemming from a grant accepted more than 25 years ago by the city of Encinitas and the district to improve the school’s playfields.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
  • Keyboard Sports, though, puts practically every key on the board to use in a clever way, with the surface of the keyboard serving as an analog for the player's position on the playfield.
    — Kyle Orland and Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The backglass and the elements of the playfield reference the Twilight Zone’s iconic opening credits sequence, as well as several of the best episodes.
    — Chris Baker, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2007
  • The 2600’s screen, which the system’s engineers had designated the playfield, functioned like a container.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Pius, which already uses Dyer for sports practices through permits with Milwaukee Recreation, had been interested in a long-term lease of the playfield.
    — Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The playfield layout is by first-time designer Elliot Eismin, who has been a mechanical engineer with Stern for around 10 years.
    — Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
  • Enderis Park is known as a neighborhood for families young and old with plenty of recreation opportunities, including two pocket parks in addition to the large playfield.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In the incredibly fun arcade version, two to four players chomp pellets and avoid ghosts on the same ever-shifting playfield, racing for power pellets that increase player size and grant the ability to eat opponents.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In return, the city would own the stadium and also get a new Lockhart Park with a playground, dog park, fitness area, multipurpose playfield, kickball zone, yoga lawn, walking trail and sprawling open green space.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The latest project is part of Milwaukee Rec’s effort to update 52 playfields throughout the city and respond to a need for public spaces in Milwaukee neighborhoods.
    — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The properties include schools, child care centers, juvenile detention or correctional facilities, libraries, parks, playfields intended for sports, playgrounds, recreation centers and more.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
  • However, some of these products contained insufficient chemical stabilizers to withstand the temperatures in the Los Angeles region and the daily playfield use.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The playfield is owned by the City of Milwaukee and run by Milwaukee Recreation, a department of Milwaukee Public Schools, which has its own plans for the land's future.
    — Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2025

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