How to Use sandlot in a Sentence

sandlot

noun

• His late father, Vern Carr, was a sandlot baseball star back in the day.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
• At least give us a sandlot-style pick-up game with mic'd up MLB players.
  — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
• Yes, a father’s commitment was great through the years on the sandlot.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
• The team practices on a 40-by-60-yard sandlot behind the school’s northwest side.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2022
• If the Bruins were to create a sandlot baseball team, it would be built around Hall.
  — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
• But years ago that fertile ground came in the likes of small towns, sandlot ball and the rugged life cultivated deep in coal mines.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
• His father, Joe, was a coal miner and caught for a sandlot baseball team.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Never organized ball, but on the streets or in sandlot games.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• It was earned in innings played all over this country in the biggest ballparks and the smallest sandlots.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2019
• The Ravens’ offense was part sandlot and part leather helmet throwback, plus a dash of rugby.
  — Mike Tanier, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2020
• Progressive Field is a long way from a sandlot game in Ontario.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• His father, Joe, was a coal miner but caught for a sandlot baseball team.
  — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• Jalen Hurts, better suited for a grind-it-out game, was forced into sandlot ball.
  — Berry Tramel, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
• And just any sandlot game, the bat was passed onto the next hitter and sent across the diamond after each half inning.
  — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
• In many ways, the draft is like picking teams on the sandlot, where a captain may have to choose between a friend and a more talented player.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
• This is a ballplayer who brings us back to our childhood when the best pitcher often was the best hitter and the first kid picked for a game on the blacktop or sandlot.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2021
• Jim Montgomery, whose sandlot days left him singing a familiar tune.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• Those two scouts, including Carlos Gomez, a longtime comber of Venezuela’s sandlots, were the first to give Marquez a tryout.
  — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• Ogawa’s weeknight practices are held on a sandlot next to a military base in Dakar’s Ouakam neighborhood.
  — Ken Maguire, New York Times, 9 June 2016
• For decades on end, Babe Ruth’s name was a staple of America’s sports conversation, even among sandlot kids who knew little more than the sound of it.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
• Those facilities are signs of a cultural shift in youth sports away from backyards and sandlots.
  — Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Clevinger wants to be out there like a school kid wildly pedaling his bike to a sandlot game with a glove threaded through the handlebars and baseball cards thwap-thwap-thwaping in the spokes.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
• The young Cuban refugee grew up to be a man in America, worked hard, asked for no handouts, shared his love of baseball on dusty sandlots in California and raised three sons of his own.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2017
• Having played sandlot ball in the Maxwell Street neighborhood, he was bound to be popular with Chicago fans.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Bevell must design plays that suit everyone else but can still work when Wilson goes sandlot.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• It’s one of the most common things heard during sandlot football games as quarterbacks try to test their arm strength and accuracy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• Both teams are part of a loose confederation of sandlot squads assembled throughout the south.
  — Michael Hoinski, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
• The players from Alabama colleges, high schools, industrial leagues and sandlots who've hit at least 100 MLB home runs.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al.com, 13 June 2019
• By noisily banging on a metal trash can to let batters know what pitch was coming, the Astros returned baseball to its sandlot roots.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2020
• Could there be any better setting than a sandlot diamond for the first date of a Chicago political romance?
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024