How To Use Hopscotch In A Sentence
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There have been dancing games before, of course, but they were rudimentary hopscotch affairs where you had to step on the right footpad at the right time.
Why talk to a computer? Surely talking to a human is traumatic enough?
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There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language.
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The children squared off the sidewalk to play hopscotch.
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At recess one day her teacher taught the class how to play hopscotch on the cement basketball court outside.
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Playing hopscotch, hide and seek, even a game of rounders was all in a day's fun for a thirteen year old in the good old days.
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The purpose of this event - which involved another 50 children - was to see if they would still play traditional street games like hopscotch in the absence of cars and traffic.
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The playground is now a more pleasant and interesting place for the children with grid games, such as hopscotch, jigsaws, target games and three chessboards with draught pieces.
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Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
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Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
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Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.
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The idea is to run around doing the sort of stuff you used to see in the playground - hopscotch, tag and leapfrog.
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The disease is not progressive, but it hopscotches around Hughes' life in a way that keeps squeezing all the drama out just as it's building to a crescendo.
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Children, half clothed in rags, play hopscotch next to a mysterious gray liquid that has gathered in stagnant puddles weeks after the last rainfall.
India: Toilets Are Scarce, And Highly Desirable
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Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
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Little kids play hopscotch on the floor tiles, babies swat at the fish in the aquarium in the entranceway, and all kinds of folks swarm about hoping for a taste of the old country.
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Moore's Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine hopscotched across explanations for the American habit of violence without investigating any one of them in meaningful depth.
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In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation.
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But these diseases are also global: SARS hopscotched the world via transcontinental flights.
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They stood looking at each other until one boy stuck out his arms for balance and hopscotched in gaps between the stones from one side to another like a broken-field runner.
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But these diseases are also global: SARS hopscotched the world via transcontinental flights.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Natalya Estemirova's heirs: The women who risk all to expose Chechnya's horrors Tour de France 2009: police hunt gunman as Oscar Freire and Julian Dean are shot at
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In the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty she plays a gold-digger using pre-nuptial agreements to hopscotch her way to riches.
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You'll notice that since yesterday, the heliborne troops of the 101AB have moved far north of yesterday's position, hopscotching in their helicopters from one base to the next.
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All the girls were engaged in games of jump rope and hopscotch.
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She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons.
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In my childhood we were allowed to play conkers, whip-and-top, hopscotch and even put jacket potatoes on the bonfires.
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To me it seems very calculated to try to hopscotch from one car to the next to the next, so nobody would know what car you're in.
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It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the ability to hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as easily as the rest of us change clothes.
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Play time will start to involve games with rules such as hopscotch, bat and ball games, and simple board games as your child reaches six and seven years.
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Twenty nine, my boyfriend suggests bullwhips, but I am all caught up with playing hopscotch.
Ll Book That Therapy Appointment Soon
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Most children's and grown-ups' games are highly competitive, whether it is Monopoly, snap, snakes and ladders, chess or hopscotch.
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From improvised reality-television games at one end to traditional hopscotch at the other, the anarchic chaos of the playground turns out, on closer inspection, to be a seething but curiously ordered grid of self-devised distractions.
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Decades ago, children were always filled with immense pleasure when playing tag, marbles, jumping rubber bands or hopscotch.
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In fact, games like five stones are excellent for developing reflexes while a game like Paandi or hopscotch inculcates a sense of balance.
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I stay away from caffeine, sugar, cold medicine, and fast food and my favorite game is hopscotch.
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As a little girl growing up in the Bronx up the street from the courthouse, my friends and I played both potsy and hopscotch.
No Uncertain Terms
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Besides, even if they were allowed to muck in with the next-door neighbours' kids, how many 10-year-olds these days would opt for hopscotch over Playstation?
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Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Jamie Oliver's school dinners improve exam results, report finds School leavers want a prom just like on US television show The OC Soho House, New York: Hotel watch
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Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
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The road is covered in chalk drawings: hopscotch and football pitches, pictograms of dolls and soldiers, houses, cars ships.
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During the interview, the former governor of Vermont appeared at ease handling questions that hopscotched across global trouble spots.
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These include skipping rope, racing, swimming, playing catch, dodgeball, and hopscotch.
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- Hopscotch might be "potsy" in Manhattan or "sky blue" in Chicago.
Undefined
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Tales were told of playing hopscotch, tig and gerallies, of home births, courting and marriages.
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It's about hope,’ he said testily this weekend as he hopscotched from the heartland to Dixie to California in pursuit of caucus votes and contributions.
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In one of the vast, anonymous, carpeted, windowless suites that pepper every large hotel in the USA, about fifty people from the same company were engaged in collective hopscotch, frisbee and kickball.
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She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons.
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So plans were formed and we arranged the elaborate car-hopscotch required to ensure that no-one would drive home drunk.
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He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals.
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Becky was on her way to watch the kids play Jacks and Hopscotch by the tennis courts, when she spotted the little creature hopping near a trash can in the garden trail rest area.
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As a youngster I would run screaming if any of my playmates were sick after eating too much ice-cream before a particularly vigorous game of hopscotch.
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Now my mother hopscotches between acceptance and warnings of eternal damnation.
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For example, hard and even surfaces allow for children to play marbles or hopscotch, or to practice riding a scooter.
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A simple box of sidewalk chalk will bring out your child's inner artist and may also be used to draw those old-fashioned games like hopscotch, four-square and Tic Tac Toe.
Darell Hammond: Back to Basics for the Holidays
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In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation.
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They need to ride their bikes and play hopscotch or just sit around with a few buddies playing video games or watching movies.
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Developments are hopscotching out to the cheapest land.
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at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
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It looks like the playing field has evolved into a mine field, and the big boys encourage the new kids to play hopscotch there.
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The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language.
Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
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Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
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Rick Perry hopscotched across Texas on Wednesday to sign ceremonial copies of a new workers' compensation bill.
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If it's raining lightly, go out for a game of mud-puddle hopscotch.
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The story hopscotched over to Bernard Weinraub, who covers Hollywood for The New York Times.
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The joys were in simple games - hopscotch, hide-and-go-seek, tag, etc.
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In summer we played shop in back yards or gardens, or hopscotch on the pavements.
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Solid Gold Hits knowingly hopscotches from era to era.
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Another crop of insurers chose to hopscotch past the Caribbean and locate here.
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Still, he thought watching mummy play hopscotch was hilarious, so it wasn't a total disaster.
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Not even the chickadees chattering and hopscotching in the shrubs at our yard's edge can break my mood.
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The Swiss adventurer hopes to fly his as yet unbuilt, unproven solar-powered plane around the globe in stages, hopscotching the globe using designated landing sites.
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Games from our Parents' Childhood: Hopscotch, Freeze, Beanbag toss, Paper Airplanes ...... Held in the Games Area outside Family Box, share with your children the games that once brought us great joy!
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You probably know more Yiddish than you think, thanks to "Seinfeld," Heeb magazine and Jewish screenwriters, who made words such as shlep, klutz, nosh, shlimazel (remember the "Laverne and Shirley" hopscotch theme song?) and shmooze household lingo.
Articles
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The road is covered in chalk drawings: hopscotch and football pitches, pictograms of dolls and soldiers, houses, cars ships.
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Children enjoy playing games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek.
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And even when the songs hopscotched over musical logic, they scanned, because - analysis fails here - they sounded so gorgeous.
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There have been several reports of children being threatened with legal action for doing t hings like drawing hopscotch grids in the street.
House Points: Joan Ruddock, Nigel Griffiths and the Met's Ironic Squad
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Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
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It starts strongly with a potentially vicious game of hopscotch.
Times, Sunday Times
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So much of one's life is graphed out with determining patterns, and one can't really treat the squares like hopscotch.
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Since when is chalking hopscotch on the pavement illegal?
The Sun
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Children enjoy playing games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek.
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After hopscotching from event to event in Nashua I found a T-Mobile hotspot at a Borders Books in town and jotted down the events in the post below.
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Artist Michael Garfield referred to it as "playing hopscotch across illusory divides in the intertidal zone between technology and spirituality, science and art, self and other, individual and collective.
Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity
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He hopscotched through different industries - accounting, consulting, and airlines - before landing in fast food.
