How to Use schoolyard in a Sentence

schoolyard

noun
  • Lines of younger students marched through the halls to the schoolyard.
    — Lee Keath, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Over the last week, the rhetoric on both sides has sunk to the level of schoolyard taunts.
    — Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2019
  • Children in the schoolyard across the street, a truck backing up.
    — Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • And then there’s just plain old schoolyard bullying and cheap cracks.
    — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Garcia proved his schoolyard haters wrong, earning four yeses from the judges.
    — USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Enjoy them with friends at the schoolyard or by yourself as a mid-day pick-me-up.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Avoiding places where a dog is known to be distracted, such as a schoolyard.
    — Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
  • The teachers asked six girls from each grade to assemble in the schoolyard.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • During lunch, a group of students gathered in the schoolyard.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Sports and morning assemblies in the schoolyard have been scrapped.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • Then there are the vitriolic anonymous posts that take on the shrill tone and tenor of a schoolyard back and forth.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The schoolyard was filled with parents who had shown up early, who could not wait to wrap arms around their babies.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • The schoolyard is where skaters come together to make work and to support each other.
    — Ian F. Blair, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • None of them ever absorbed the old schoolyard lesson, don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • At that time, Ochoa was working on the campus as a schoolyard duty.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • As children played in the schoolyard, there were no reports of federal agents in the area.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Outside the building there was the far corner of the schoolyard’s flower bed.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Perched on the second floor, the windows in the room overlooked the schoolyard and stared into the sky.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Walls were blasted and debris scattered in the schoolyard, where some cars were damaged.
    — Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
  • So don’t just view the lengthy montage of Lions trick plays as some kind of schoolyard circus act.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Do all the adults around him, including his parents, view it in the light of what happened in the schoolyard?
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • Played with two tiles, the goal of the schoolyard game is to flip one tile, laying on the ground, by slamming it with the other.
    — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The '90s schoolyard must-have is back in fashion—this time with a laptop pocket.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022
  • This is the moral equivalent of a schoolyard bully telling you to stop hitting yourself.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Anyone from the streets to the schoolyard can understand the disdain for that figure.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
  • That's because she and the next person on our list were not selected for teams on a day 2 schoolyard pick 'em.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • That's because she and the next person on our list were not selected for teams on a day 2 schoolyard pick 'em.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Officers dispatched to the scene detained the boy in the schoolyard, the statement said.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Instead, Walz tried an old schoolyard tactic — casting the bully and his gang as weirdos.
    — Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Last year in a schoolyard, one hippo just wandered in, and kids were scared, teachers running every which way.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024

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