How To Use Bleacher In A Sentence
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Bleachers surround the court, and the park is packed for every game.
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If you were one of the 16,300 fans who drove through the late autumn mist to sit on those unforgiving wood bleachers on Saturday afternoon, you probably didn't know that the Jayhawks were under the weather, and you probably would have watched the first half and assumed "the crud" was the name of KU's new offense.
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Phil felt all of sixteen again and remembered as if it were yesterday the repercussions of her aftergame tryst with Kyle Thompson under the bleachers.
Good Girl Gone Bad
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Even a dunderhead knows that fans swelter in summer's bleachers and bundle in December's cold out of a love for the contests, not for sociological or business deconstructions.
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The group meets at a church-school campus, making use of fields, blacktop and bleachers (for running drills, of course).
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There were Scots standing in the bleachers and hanging from windowsills, screaming wildly for me.
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The one unbending rule that bleacherites are required to follow is this: should an opposing player hit a home run into the bleachers, the ball must be thrown back onto the field.
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In that case we should have motored sooner or later by the bleachery gate and past numerous company houses.
Working With the Working Woman
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The band sounded great and played what we needed to hear from the Blue album, but what kept everyone in the stadium excited was the "where is Rivers" game as he danced and ran through the crowd, climbing on top of portable buildings andup and down the stadium bleachers, with security and a bright spotlight trying to keep with him.
Three Imaginary Girls - Seattle's sparkly indie-pop press
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I'm seated in the third row, just forward of the semicircular bleachers that surround the stage and the rear band area.
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I ran pell-mell down the bleachers, forgetting about my supposedly sprained ankle, and grabbed the nearest fan.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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Behind the bleachers would be the druggies and elementary kids who were too busy chasing girls to focus on the game.
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Oct. 25, 5:45 P. M. Today after classes Thorne and Posie and I sat in the bleachers in the natatorium and watched swim practice.
THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. II: STOP, DON'T STOP
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As they cut across the softball field he saw the maintenance crew setting up the bleachers along what would be the sidelines for the football field used by the semi-pro team that played there each fall.
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Spectators of a car race in Brazil on Sunday were t aken off guard when the bleacher they were sitting in collapsed.
Brazil Bleacher Collapse VIDEO: More Than 100 Hurt In Parana
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In short, he was a nephew whose peer could not be found in all Sweden, and who knows whether the piece of linen he chose from the bleachery was the last he received from his indulgent aunt.
The Home in the Valley
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Her father, yelling from the bleachers, only deepened her uncertainty.
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Tell your little friend she has to wait in the bleachers until practice is over!
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Bleachers surround the court, and the park is packed for every game.
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In front of the bleachers was a podium; off to the side, a short row of folding chairs.
DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
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On the Swarthmore side of the field, there were more kids suited up than there were fans in the bleachers.
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I joined the other dancers on our reserved bleacher seats.
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Glittery, white snowflakes hung from the ceiling, while along the edges of the bleachers was white gossamer that was also draped over the bleachers.
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It was on the day before the game when she was sitting in the bleachers, just waiting for the practice to end, that she saw a blonde cheerleader prance over to River and kiss him.
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The lights shone down upon us as our cleats clanked against the metal bleachers.
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He was playing a game of dominoes on the second level in the second level bleachers in the stadium inside the dome when he calmly got up.
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They added outfield bleacher seats, a batting cage, and tarps to cover the field.
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The bleachers echoed in the distance from our rough steps.
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Sat next to Rep. Lewis in bleacher seats at a not so well-attended talk given by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend about her dad.
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They're plastic bleachers, the kind where the whole row shakes if the guy nine chairs down from you crosses his legs.
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Confusion Reigns When Bleacherites Flee to Reserved Section During Downpour.
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Let those who prefer to sob over woman labor behind factory prison bars visit our bleachery.
Working With the Working Woman
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Gerald stepped up into the bleachers and said, "Hi, blondie."
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But I could still see the raised seats in the gallery high above me, and the bleachers at the same level.
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On their way to practice they noticed Kendra sitting on the bleachers on the old court, with a photo album.
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They sit on the bleachers inside Matthews Arena and clap and stomp and cheer their lungs out when the Huskies score.
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The back of Wrigley Field's bleachers from the street, left; Tim Dettmar stands on Waveland Avenue hoping he'll snare a home run.
USATODAY.com - 'Friendly Confines' take center stage
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The word bleachers is an Americanism that first appeared in 1889 in the Chicago Tribune.
The Vail Trail - All Sections
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The oil having been allowed to settle all night, the litharge solution is drawn off, and the oil run into a shallow tank or "bleacher," where it is exposed to the light to improve its color, and is, if necessary, steamed to drive off the lighter hydrocarbons and raise the flashing point to the legal minimum of 95° F.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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And I find it rather hard to identify with linen bleachers and farm workers.
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Ballplayers were accessible in the 1950s and if you called out to George from the bleachers, there was a good chance that he would call back.
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We had our own designated section of the bleachers, and were supposed to spend at least half of each game there.
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Babe's pointing to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpedaling shoulder shrug.
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It's cheaper and most of the real baseball fans sit in the bleachers.
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After practice I watch him walk painfully over to the bleachers, wrap up his knee and hobble out.
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Gary: your note about how hard the stone gradins are reminds me that I forgot an important point: we were seated on bleachers that were placed * over* the ancient stone slabs (or over a section of the arene ..).
Gradins - French Word-A-Day
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There was one union in the bleachery; that was in another department where mostly men were employed — the folders.
Working With the Working Woman
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The Latin Americans sambaed through the bleachers to a song of their own singing, as the Dutch oompah-ed and the Americans bellowed from the side.
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When I entered the stadium, it was evident that those scattered throughout the bleachers were attending the game for various reasons.
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The buzzer went off and the performance sheet feel to the bleachers from nerveless hands
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I know a guy who made his studio out of pallets and the old bleachers from a high school.
Six Creative Upcycling Projects
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One spring, Hornsby called all of the minor leaguers together and sat them down on a row of bleachers.
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We were sitting on the bleachers after practice and we were getting ready for a game against a neighboring town's school, the Mallory High Eagles.
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In one of the dozen or so times this act has played over the last decade, bleacherites pelted the field with trash, temporarily halting the game.
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Batting left-handed against Ray Herbert of the White Sox, he crushed a 502-foot moonshot into the center field bleachers.
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The outfield had no bleachers; instead a more or less solid green wall pocked with ad banners extended up from the outfield fence to the mezzanine level, with the bullpens flush from the gaps to either foul line.
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The play concerns the antics of eight dedicated baseball bleacherites at Wrigley Field, who spend the eternal afternoons in God's sun, betting, kibitzing, and kvetching about the action on the field.
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Here's a video of Aaron hitting 715 and a great post on a sports blog called the bleacher report ..
Chicagoray's Views and News
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(Speaking of "blush," a day in the bleachers is much more likely to turn me red than bleach me, but what the hey.)
Gradins - French Word-A-Day
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Luckier was John Whitehead, bleacher of Lowercroft, who would have been aboard the Rothsay Castle but for a last-minute change of plan.
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When the track reopened, there were no bleachers, concessions were sold from a small trailer, and power came from generators.
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I cringed as the crowd of Clemington students next to me began screaming names across the gym bleachers.
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Gary: your note about how hard the stone gradins are reminds me that I forgot an important point: we were seated on bleachers that were placed *over* the ancient stone slabs or over a section of the arene..
Gradins - French Word-A-Day
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Sal, me, Joey and Sal's sister smoked under the bleachers, shared the beer while the game went on and the crowd made crowd noises, idiots swung toys that made loud clacker sounds, and some guy with one of those new aerosol boat horns blew everyone away.
1963, What I wanted
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In one of the neighborhoods I lived in there was a classic corner candy store, one that had a long formica counter flanked by revolving red-topped stools; behind the counter was perched a sea-green malted mixer, a bleacher stacked with Neccos, Chuckles, B-B Bats and Yoo-Hoos, a large tarnished griddle upon which hamburger patties and home fries hissed and popped, and the whole space seemingly lit in sepia.
Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy!
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Frank Laporte was robbed of a home run by a bleacherite, who knocked the ball down as it was soaring into the left-field bleachers.
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She then followed his gaze to the bleachers, where a minute figure was attempting to shinny down the vertical railing on one side.
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Sure, there are some mercenaries who will overpay for bleacher seats, hoping to catch an eBay prize, but most Yankee fans are far more consumed with Andy Pettitte's groin, Derek Jeter's slump, and A.J. Burnett's post - meltdown dugout patty-cake routine to have emotion left for A-Rod.
No. 600 Apathy All About the Juice
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The arrival of French bleachers who developed the town's textile industry in the late 1760s added to it.
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The crowd around him was 15 deep, and the little bleachers in front of him were stacked with minicams, reporters and even three of Lewis' teammates.
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Behind the bleachers would be the druggies and elementary kids who were too busy chasing girls to focus on the game.
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My seats were in the right field bleachers, notoriously the most profane, obnoxious and uproarious section in Yankee Stadium, if not in all of baseball.
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We added a consumer protection unit to the office, and then, after investigating price-fixing by a company that sold gymnasium bleachers to school districts, we created an antitrust unit.
The Good Fight
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Can't Post | Private Reply looks like the back side of some bleachers, is the circus in town?
What is this? Part 1
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Sam slouched back into the bleachers and propped his elbows up on the bench behind him.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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I spent the basketball practice seated in my usual spot in the bleachers.
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This area is an alcove, created by a gap in the center field bleachers, and in the alcove are the stairs that lead to the two clubhouses.
WILLIE MAYS
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We felt all badass till we noticed that the true VIPs were sitting in bleacher seats right behind the stage.
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Many that day at the bleachery said they weren't going — didn't like Charlie
Working With the Working Woman
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The three each buried one of their name-engraved bats in the concrete being poured in the right-field bleachers.
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The word bleachers has come to mean similar seating in other arenas, such as a gymnasium.
The Vail Trail - All Sections
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In 1801 it was sold again, to bleacher Richard Ainsworth of Moss Bank, Halliwell and the Ainsworths were the last family to live in it before the Hall was sold to Bolton Corporation in 1938.
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Returning to the main point, I fully agree that for those in the humanities to remain woefully ignorant of the sciences is to remain in the bleachers of an intellectual life.
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A family had moved away, thereby detaching a worker from the bleachery — the girl who ticketed pillow cases.
Working With the Working Woman
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•View 360-degree panorama from the right-field bleachers
A tribute to the 'House that Ruth Built'
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Tickets for bleacher seats along the parade route run $ 10 to $ 100 each.
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The actual number working in the bleachery was about six hundred and twenty men and women.
Working With the Working Woman
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The crowd seated in the bleachers - it was a full house - was incessantly loud and obstreperous.
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Pyrasulfotole is a "bleacher," meaning it shuts down the photosynthetic pathway of weeds, rendering the plant defenseless against sunlight.
High Plains Journal
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I take sole custody of my actions of my choices even the one to be choiceless but I cannot help wonder if we might have survived if you had stepped off the bleachers strode onto the field gotten into the game with me instead of intermittently clapping from the sidelines.
Seven
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It was usual practice for the finishing trades of the bleachers and dyers to develop alongside hosiery.
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It was usual practice for the finishing trades of the bleachers and dyers to develop alongside hosiery.
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Receiving a quick pat on the back by Chris, David continued to walk toward the metal bleachers.
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Two weeks ago we were sitting in some makeshift bleachers at the local cancha de fútbol when a horse entered the field from an adjacent dirt road, crossed the field at full gallop we clearly heard the pounding of its hooves from 100 meters away, jumped a ditch, and continued down a road on the other side of the field, still at full gallop.
Cheerful in our tropical depression
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He gets a whiff of weed farted from the bowels of the bleachers.
HOMECOMING 2007 • by Rebecca Nazar
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The river has a rich industrial history and people still refer to nearby waterways as Bleachery Pond or "tannery" lagoons.
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It was usual practice for the finishing trades of the bleachers and dyers to develop alongside hosiery.
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Verily, there is no “factory atmosphere” about the bleachery, compared with New York standards.
Working With the Working Woman
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Maier was an 12-year-old New York Yankees fan in 1996 when he infamously reached out from the bleachers and "snared" what looked to be a certain double off the wall.
The Seattle Times
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From our seats in the bleachers, we stared west, hoping that another kaleidoscopic Florida sunset would add symbolic luster to this most American rite of passage.
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She wasn't a cheerleader and this was one of the first times a non-cheerleader had sat on the bleachers after their practices in a long time.
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The back view of the piece revealed a bleacher-like structure of shallow risers buttressed by a plywood scaffold supporting both the pulley and a large fan that kept the floating arch aloft.
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I love the excited roar of the teeming crowd, the taste of the braunschweiger sandwiches, and the scent of the wooden bleachers.
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The ball hit her smack against the side of her head, sending the cell phone flying to slide along the floor and under a bleacher, a broken fake nail not far behind it.
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Gleacher, which is pronounced like bleacher, will now focus on building and hiring in areas where it sees it already has a competitive advantage, including mortgage securities, mortgage origination, and advice and capital raising for companies in the real estate, financial services, aerospace and defense, general industrial, and financial-sponsor sectors.
Boutique Bank Gleacher Shuts Stock-Trading Unit
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In that community, so it seems, a child is born, attends school up to the minimum required, or a bit beyond, and then goes to work in the bleachery — though a few do find their way instead to the overall factory, and still fewer to the shirtwaist factory.
Working With the Working Woman
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About 40, 000 people are expected to watch the inaugural parade from the bleacher seats.
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He looked around momentarily, saw us in the bleachers, and trotted in our direction.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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It's only in the bleachers where you have to sit in the sun.
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But it is much easier to shout from the safety of the bleacher seats than playing on the field having to negotiate a 380-pound tackle.
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Therefore, she must have her tin shower at the bleachery.
Working With the Working Woman
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Kevin shuffled to the bleachers and poured water all over his head.
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The Amador bleachers erupted into boos and hisses while Foothills started cheering Quarter on.
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The name bleachers comes from bleaching boards, a reference to fans who sat in the hot sun, bleaching themselves on the board seats.
WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
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My mother glanced at student cheering side of the bleachers and frowned.
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Add to these ‘whitster’ (female bleacher, Shakespeare),
English Past and Present
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At each performance, several audience members are invited to join the spelling contest, sitting in the bleachers with the cast until they misspell a word.
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Then the knowing bleacherite who had started the cry changed it somewhat.
The Redheaded Outfield
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Your local youth league could use your "bleacher" expertise! lol
Yahoo! Sports - Top News
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When he half turned and crutched back toward the bleachers, I saw how carrying the clipboard in his pants this way made sense.
Forget You
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In small communities like the one in which I was raised generations of former gridiron warriors fill the bleachers to watch their sons and grandsons battle the descendants of their own regional foes.
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It could obtain the most popular seats, in the boxes and bleachers, and it did.
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Becoming an official offered the chance to keep from sitting on hard bleachers or having to work in areas that prevented them from watching their children swim.
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Each summer, the "Bleacher Creatures" organize a round-robin softball tournament of four teams playing for the Ali Ramirez trophy.
No. 7: Bleacher Creatures inhabit their own little borough
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‘Take a seat in the bleachers,’ the teacher, a young man who looked barely out of college, said.
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According to the CPSC numbers, watching “murderball” as detractors deem it could be more dangerous than playing it, since bleachers cause eight times as many injuries as the game itself.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
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I have seen what Michael is referring to, plus the abuse which is hurled at apprentice referees from the bleachers is driving a number of them from the scene also.
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He finally reached me and sat down beside me on the bleacher and I could smell the clean scent of soap on him.
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I guessed Matthew had not seen me sitting in the bleachers, and then his back turned to face the bleachers opposite me, as he began to talk with the two coaches standing with him.
