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Schoolyard in sentence

18 examples of Schoolyard in a sentence

These are children in the schoolyard in Geneva during a recess during the winter.
That winter, a kid in the schoolyard called Chuck's mom a crack whore.
If Chuck had gone to my high school, that schoolyard fight would have ended there, as a schoolyard fight.
My first encounter with hate was in the schoolyard.
The opening few credits, iconic to Pekinpah fans, has the inter-cutting between man and animal, but here we have non-diegetic ambient noise of children playing in a schoolyard while a bomb is being planted.
The flimsy plot isn't meant to be taken seriously - why else make Merlin a heavy when in most, if not all, of the other versions he is more a friend/mentor to Arthur - so if you start wondering aloud why Sir Lancelot who has been sold to historians as the epitome of chivalry and uprightness metamorphoses into a schoolyard bully you're not going to get much fun out of what is essentially a fun movie.
As Brian returns to the schoolyard after a period in a mental asylum to treat his Violent Schizophrenia Syndrome, bodies start piling up as well and naturally he becomes the prime suspect.
Steve's father is an unemployed sot, his mother has left the home to be with another man, and his older brother utilizes him as a schoolyard dope dealer, plainly a dispiriting background for the youth, but as depicted one feels no sympathy for him, as his deportment appears to stem from stupidity rather than as reaction to socio/economic pressures in this erratically paced work wherein puerile incident assumes precedence above character development.
In this new schoolyard, only those with committed friends will be able to stand up to the bullies.
Amid a re-run of last year’s lurid schoolyard taunts – “little rocket man” and “mentally deranged dotard” – Moon will be desperate to rescue a semblance of improvement in relations with the North.
Photographs of the incident show Putin grinning like a schoolyard bully at this act of intimidation.
But more responsibility arguably lies with the American broadcast journalists who amplified his schoolyard name-calling and bizarre policy views.
The bullies still run the schoolyard.
The feminist critique, for example, has totally remade elementary-level education, where female decision-makers prevail: the construction of male hierarchies in the schoolyard is often redirected nowadays for fear of “bullying,” with boys and girls alike expected to “share” and “process” their emotions.
If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.
Data show a surge in hate crimes in the US since the day after his election, including a doubling in the number of killings by white supremacists, as well as widespread schoolyard bullying in his name and a record number of mass shootings and gun murders.
And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate of the schoolyard instead of playing with his comrades.
He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.