How to Use playing field in a Sentence

playing field

noun
  • 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
  • On top of this, the playing field is tilting the GOP’s way.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 21 May 2021
  • 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
  • But in the world of high school sports, there’s still an uneven playing field.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Search on the open web is the best playing field to accomplish this feat.
    Quora, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • And as the labor movement seeks to level the playing field, will the stars go along?
    New York Times, 13 June 2021
  • The playing field clearly is not level — and hasn’t been for decades.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Two warmup pools would sit on the western portion of the Vikings playing field.
    Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • There is a lot of movement on the retail playing field.
    Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Most of them came straight from the playing field to the big league coaching staff and then to manager.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • By the fourth quarter, Ohio State leveled the playing field by tying the score.
    Megan Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • One of the things that always concerned me is the uneven playing field, right?
    Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Norman says the tariffs were pitched as a way to even the playing field with China.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • To him, that means no secret spots and a level playing field.
    Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2021
  • But the Olympics have helped refugees find a temporary home back on the playing field, and in each other.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2021
  • That larger playing field helps the spores spread farther and wider.
    Jon Webb, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
  • 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 wall is basically an extension of the playing field, the front part of the wall is.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The playoffs are a much different playing field though, as teams come out and play harder for their chance to advance.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • To avoid a race to the bottom in safety standards which would endanger the general public globally, world leaders need to intervene now to level the regulatory playing field.
    Henry Papadatos, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025

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