How To Use Playground In A Sentence

Over 300,000 visitors a year enjoy the waterfalls, flower gardens, exotic birds, animal life and the children's playground.
She said the new playground would help give the children greater independence.
The arcade is an indoor playground, a room full of games and toys, and people playing them.
All proceeds from the night will go towards the cost of upgrading the equipment in the playground.
The teacher told his pupils to spread out and not to bunch up in the center of the playground.

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Judges will consider overall design, safety, level of fun and how the playground caters for children with disabilities.
More kids climb on a riverside playground, and in the water beyond is a handful of cormorants, including one taking off low to the water like a seaplane.
I remember not wanting to spend time there, due to the lack of a proper playground area to play in.
Nowadays, schoolyards and community playgrounds and public parks are barren on a weekday afternoon.
As the country's political heavyweights picked city youngsters off a playground slide, it was clear that these images were designed to kick-start the conference in the Sunday papers.
There is a playground with swings, slides, sandbox etc.
I would dread to think that a scene such as the one I witnessed at the age of twelve could happen in a playground now.
The school was granted some temporary prefabs to replace old dilapidated ones which were declared unsafe, but with both sets of these prefabs in the school at the same time, the children lost a lot of their playground space.
It is not designed as a playground for the rich, but as a museum for the masses.
Ten minutes in a playground and the jumper would be off, polished shoes scuffed and shorts stained with apple juice. The Sun
The sea still serves as a byway, grocery, laundry, workplace, and playground for the local inhabitants, just as it has for centuries.
They are shredded and used again to surface playgrounds and horse training tracks.
Ever since I found out that they make adult sizes I've been daydreaming about 'heeling' to work (just think how exciting that walk to and from London Bridge would be on wheels), about skating carefree-ly round Paul when we go shopping, and about generally being the coolest kid in the playground. The One With The Fad
Your tots will be the coolest kids on the playground once they get their tiny hands on threads from Little Ruler. Little Ruler Clothing for Trendy Little Tykes
The entirety of time and space is his playground, from the dawn of the Universe to its end. Times, Sunday Times
When not on the beach, Rian enjoyed the children's playground, which offered a slide, swings, see-saw and fortress.
It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground. The Sun
As well as having some teachers stranded at home, headteachers were also concerned about health and safety on icy playgrounds.
Nineteen children's playgrounds may be facing the axe in the latest round of Lancaster City Council cost-cuts.
It's as bad as a school playground. Times, Sunday Times
As a grade-schooler, he may not react when another kid bumps into him on the playground.
The court lay in a large open area behind the castellated facade of the former National Guard armoury, now a high school playground. COMPULSION
Not surprising, her move was straight out of a primary school playground. The Sun
There was a small playground covered in sand with a single swing set and a slide.
Their latest App named after the popular playground game "foursquare" is a refreshing combination of friend finder + social networker + video game. WN.com - Articles related to Internet social networking is challenging our notion of privacy
The dialogue is as awash in vulgarity as, well, a middle school playground. I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote!
They were rolling the playground with a steam-roller.
Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground - the whole nine yards.
No one leaves a two year old alone with dogs at a playground to go dump trash. ratpack at 10: 25 AM JST - 10th February Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
Disabled and able-bodied children will now be able to enjoy the playground together because of its specially designed equipment.
There are several playgrounds around Bradford, built under similar arrangements, which have been removed at the request of residents after becoming the gathering place for young rowdies.
The local council is supplying new play equipment for the playground.
At lunch time I stand by myself in the playground cos none of the children will play with me and if I ask to play with them they say okay and then they ignore me.
Lumpy custard, stodgy stew and cold mashed potato used to be stock jokes in British playgrounds about old-style school dinners.
Any film appearance by Robin Hood reinforced a belief that this wooded playground was surely once part of a Sherwood Forest.
I stood up and Jordan and I walked over to the grassy bank by the playground.
He got clobbered by a kid on the playground.
When the schools opened last year both had different entrances, playgrounds, staffrooms and libraries.
Can I remind both children and parents that graveyards and cemeteries are not playgrounds.
The sound of children excitedly running around their school playground and the drone of passing cars are the only noises that disturb the tranquillity of rural life.
At the playground she shadows his progress, car keys clenched in her hand in case they have to dash to A&E. Times, Sunday Times
There is a colloquial standard to learn on the playground and a literary standard to learn in class.
And all the time prominent politicians in all parties have sounded more like insecure playground bullies than thoughtful national leaders. Times, Sunday Times
From its humble beginnings as a coconut plantation to a popular playground for the rich in the 1920s to a Mecca for the elderly in the '80s, the "Sun and Fun Capital" outdoes even the queen of reinvention herself, Madonna. Jerry Libbin: Miami Beach Has Found Its Niche
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The combination of the beautiful pier, great library, beach, playground and pedestrian mall made for a really fun outing.
I waiting impatiently for the bell to ring so I could run out to meet my friends at the playground and play cops and robbers.
It is at least 30 years since my last unsuccessful playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
As another example, consider the design requirements of modular playground equipment.
I drove by Coopertown's playground last summer and noticed that things haven't changed - same fields, same swings, same maddeningly unclimbable oak - except for the kids.
But compared with what you hear in most school playgrounds it's positively chaste. Times, Sunday Times
In his case it could have been as innocent as a five-year-old friend betraying him after a playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
The present British Library has lost its historic purpose and has become a playground for young students. Times, Sunday Times
But just as Sheen arrived and the ranks of the expedition were beginning to give way before the strenuous onslaught of the Judies, the latter, almost with one accord, turned and bolted into their playground again. The White Feather
When a developer first proposed building infill housing on the playground and parking lot of an old school and turning the school into condominiums, the neighbors were ready for revolt.
It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground. The Sun
For a few short weeks each autumn, in playgrounds across the land, the tinny buzz of the Nokia and the iPod is supplanted by the sound of youngsters thwacking their nuts.
And all the time prominent politicians in all parties have sounded more like insecure playground bullies than thoughtful national leaders. Times, Sunday Times
You are of course free to debate the books and characters here But if you cannot do so without resorting to the kind of snarkiness or rudeness that passes itself off as wittisism but is in reality childishness better suited to a grade school playground, then simply go. Crazy Screechy Monkeys 1, Best-Selling Author 0 « Whatever
I visited the lovely sun-shielded children's playground with my granddaughter and was astounded to find that the playground is not enclosed by a childproof fence.
Children will love the adventure playground and miniature railway, picnic sites and woodland walks.
The sea still serves as a byway, grocery, laundry, workplace, and playground for the local inhabitants, just as it has for centuries.
The man was followed to a children's playground where his behaviour was observed.
They have become playgrounds for a generation of super-rich rather than a mass spectator sport. Times, Sunday Times
The popular playground pastime of the Eighties is making a comeback - this time with a difference. Times, Sunday Times
It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians.
I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
And she now spends her days caring for her cute daughter, including regular visits to the local playground and mall. The Sun
The grounds which surround the development will be landscaped to include a barbecue, children's playground, a fountain and green spaces.
I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.
The playground was awash with them, as were walls, corridors, exercise books and the backs of lower school pupils who could be held down while a pud was chalked onto their jersey.
If Ground Level was a land of perpetual night, then Top Level was the opposite; a playground of coruscating light.
Fights, scuffles, and scraps have a long history in playgrounds, schools, pubs, clubs, and workplaces.
One can easily be convinced of our view about history if one realizes that history and symptomatology is actually a conscious concomitant of the neurological, neurohormonal effects of the disease process/or its background/playground/battleground. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The Alis said the flames were higher than the trees in the playground opposite and other residents were relieved the wind was fanning the fire away from properties.
The children were out in the playground letting off steam.
The house is a huge damp building that would be demolished at home, and has plain white mildew-covered walls. The playground is a dust yard with a rusting swing set which the kids love.
I read that certain games are to be banned in school playgrounds, including conkers and skipping, for fear of accidents.
In his case it could have been as innocent as a five-year-old friend betraying him after a playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
The colour purple is the playground sensation du jour. Times, Sunday Times
He brought him to the school playground, to the school bus, wherever Stephen was, there was Thomas.
At recess, the teacher found a group of her girls chanting that slogan on the playground.
When I think of the old Allen Street school, with its hard and ugly lines, where the gas had to be kept burning even on the brightest days, recitations suspended every half-hour, and the children made to practice calisthenics so that they should not catch cold while the windows were opened to let in fresh air; of the dark playground downstairs, with the rats keeping up such a racket that one could hardly hear himself speak at times; or of that other East Side playground where the boys werent allowed to speak above a whisper, so as not to disturb those studying overhead, I fancy that I can make out both the cause and the cure of the boys desperation. XIII. Justice to the Boy
One pack (called a "sounder") of boars took to hanging out at a playground in Berlin's posh Dahlem district. In Berlin's Boar War, Some Side With the Hogs
It stinks to high heaven that a butt-muffin playground bully such as Blankenship has the right to, in effect, murder people for the sake of profit. Think Progress » Coal disaster company Massey Energy denied time off for miners to attend their friends’ funerals.
The county was to become a holiday playground for those bold enough to venture west of the River Tamar. Times, Sunday Times
As with most playground punch-ups, this bystander does not much care who started it.
Indoor leisure pool, adventure playground, shop and launderette.
The children ran in zigzags around the playground until they were exhausted.
Walking through a crowded school hallway or playground is daunting because it means brushing up against so many bodies.
And for dessert, the much awaited chocolate chestnut BÃ»che de NoÃ«l, the Yuletide Log, is proudly placed upon the table, a moist genoise cake rolled up, filled and iced with rich buttercream and decorated like a branch or log lying on the forest floor, a playground for elves and whimsical forest creatures. Jamie Schler: Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte For The Holidays
There are 13,000 hospital admissions annually due to playground accidents.
It had a large playground and a flat felted roof which leaked.
More recently they have been a popular adventure playground for youngsters.
So, the rural museum and playground was to be kept open at all costs so as not to offend the weekend green wellie brigade rather than take the belt-and-braces approach that might actually work to stop the spread of this fell disease. Archive 2007-08-05
Sometimes, Ashley walks to a nearby elementary school so she can watch the children spill out on to the playground.
The last pocket of affordable mooring in the south's home of sailing could soon become an expensive marina and exclusive playground for the rich and famous.
Hudson Park and Beach is near Echo Bay and features a playground and a bandshell. Rebounding New Rochelle Adds to Appeal
Luma Lane has already given brief respite by then; hair clamped in bunches, her not unattractive playground lullaby vocal stripped from the finer points of the 4AD back catalogue.
The proceeds will be used to improve the school playground.
Still, Canada's vast, frozen emptiness offers a unique playground for Mars-gazing scientists.
If Asmujo fails to find his inner self, then his solo exhibition is just a playground for him.
And for dessert, the much awaited chocolate chestnut Bûche de Noël, the Yuletide Log, is proudly placed upon the table, a moist genoise cake rolled up, filled and iced with rich buttercream and decorated like a branch or log lying on the forest floor, a playground for elves and whimsical forest creatures. Jamie Schler: Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte For The Holidays
They fit a teaching schedule around families as they shuttle between tropical islands, luxurious destinations and the global playgrounds of the super-rich. Times, Sunday Times
I dread to think what stories they'll be telling their friends in the playground.
The southern end of Bombay is a playground for ideas in Gothic decoration that make St Pancras look like the work of Mies van der Rohe. Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat
The arcade leads through to a playground, also designed by the students.
WHEN my six-year-old stays with his dad he allows him to play outside unsupervised and visit a playground out of sight of the house. The Sun
I concentrated on this ominous visage that lurked behind a children's playground a few yards from where I sat.
Two girls "spieled" in the corner, a kind of dancing that is not favored in the playground. The Battle with the Slum
This area of the coast is the playground of the rich and famous.
Collector's Cafe, a Myrtle Beach gallery and restaurant modeled after the art bistros of 17 th-century Europe, is an oasis of sophistication in a vast playground of lowbrow beach fun.
On his days off, he scrutinises the children in the playground opposite his apartment and shadows a little girl through the local park.
Children in primary school playgrounds clearly demonstrate an instinctive pleasure in rhythm, pattern and rhyme.
He's organizing a raffle for the school playground appeal fund.
For tax purposes, they are registered as living in Monaco, a playground for the Euro jet set.
The other children used to taunt him in the playground because he was fat and wore glasses.
The riverside has long been a playground for Leeman Road lads, said Mr Newland, who is 62.
A sharp-eyed youngster has found a medieval coin dating back more than 700 years in his school playground.
I think I heard something like a squeaky playground merry-go-round in the background, or maybe it was a squeaky gate door.
In too many comprehensives street culture is in the playground and the classroom - to the detriment of the children's education.
I take little stock in playground name-calling ... North Korea: Clinton 'funny lady, by no means intelligent'
It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground. The Sun
He also remembered an incident when he was 8 when he had run away from school and remained undiscovered in a local playground overnight. Know Your Own Mind
And if that sounds like the politics of the playground, it's made all the more infantile because in many ways Cuba has plenty of things that America would dearly love and needs.
The restaurant is tucked away behind playground walls in a converted bike shed. Times, Sunday Times
The top flight has become a pre-school playground. Times, Sunday Times
Community leaders say the playground is a muddy, smelly quagmire even in the height of summer.
These were quickly adopted as a playground by the hordes of school children bused to the show.
Children will hear conversations and overhear information on radio, TV and from the playground network.
They've set aside a small area as a children's playground and staked it off.
The playground of the school has been walled in.
Ten thousand reckless little goofs get injured in our country's playground parks each year according to the Ontario-based Canadian Standards Association.
You know, I think some people can relate to being the last picked, and I think, as you hearken back to those days on the playground scene here, you almost can feel the pain when you're in your 40s.
They might also talk with school teachers, local health workers or concerned parents about developing CHILD-to-child activities, or organize local children to build a playground for all children. Chapter 6
The pool of water on the playground evaporated in the sun.
A population explosion of bristling wild boars sparked by a long, hot summer is driving the tuskers from their natural woodland habitats into the parks, gardens, graveyards and playgrounds of the new capital.
Most grandiose of all was his plan to convert a small fishing village called Jerudong into a playground both for the royal family and tourists.
Lovely waterside walks, picnic areas, new adventure playground, refreshments, Visitor Centre.
He collared him crossing the playground one day.
The children's laughter was still ringing in my ears as I left the playground.
I've seen playgrounds sporting old, abused equipment: swings with ropes that have multiple knots in them from retying the breaks, and splintered wooden seats.
Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground - the whole nine yards.
Much of what I recall was once a large playground and green area to the rear of the site is now home to a small village of prefab classrooms.
Extensive flower gardens, an adventure playground, and cafeteria, all help to make this a delightful place to visit.
Large expanses of different planets are your playground of destruction. The Sun
I love smimming in summer. So I always go swimming with my parents in the sea. Sometimes, I like to play basketball on the playground with my friends if it's not very hot.
The students in the village petitioned the authority for a new playground.
The area is now strewn with broken bottles and rubbish and the playground equipment is covered in graffiti.
He makes a point of being on playground duty at the start and finish of the school day, so parents can bring any concerns to him.
She added that, since the last competition, a skate park, playgrounds and a disabled walkway had been constructed.
I was six when I shouted out in the playground that my father was president of the republic. Times, Sunday Times
This, though a plentiful, and by no means unwholesome fare for growing boys, was not what he had been accustomed to, and feeling far too heavy and unwell after it to venture upon an encounter with the Doctor, he wandered slow and melancholy round the bare gravelled playground during the half-hour after dinner devoted to the inevitable "chevy," until the Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
Sundays, when even the swings in the children's playgrounds are padlocked, are best avoided.
We got hold of the lyrics, and acted it out in the school playground, protecting our territory from the younger kids.
The idea that the planchette won't move for some people alone because the ‘devil has their soul’ is pure playground nonsense.
The motionless figures ap-peared determined still to make the leap to the playground.
It's all dusky reds and yellows, shag-headed battle royales, exploding tanks, and getting up the next day to relive it on the playground.
Peralta ripping in back of Mar Vista Elementary School - the first playground he was officially kicked out of as a young skate rat.
a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children
Parents should be on the lookout for goals that may be improperly anchored or counterbalanced at their child's school, field or playground. Soccer goals need to be anchored
Four songs - Playgrounds and City Parks, the druggy Love in Veins, Slideling and the fabulous Stake Your Claim - hold their own with the best of his canon.
When Messi collects the ball and sets off on one of his balletic dribbles, it is as though the ball is glued to his boot, and it is merely a game of playground 'tig'. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
The sea still serves as a byway, grocery, laundry, workplace, and playground for the local inhabitants, just as it has for centuries.
The brilliant playgrounds enjoyed by pupils at Burlington Infants School are enough to make you want to be three again.
Adventure playground for small have-a-go eco-heroes. Times, Sunday Times
There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground.
The children's playground has been railed in so that the children do not wander on to the main road.
It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team.
We went to an adventure playground, more for me than them, and to the fair, candyfloss and sugar dummies. THE MANANA MAN
As I came into the playgrounds this morning, I saw a dashing young fellow, with a tanned face and a blond moustache, who was walking up and down the green arm-inarm with Champion Major, and followed by a little crowd of boys. Dr. Birch and his young friends
In my school, we used to have playground fights about the relative merits of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley versus Tommy Steele.
The local council is supplying new play equipment for the playground.
THE Cairngorms are an outdoor playground like no other. The Sun
From the back of a deli in Adams Morgan in Washington, D.C., I hashed out an ambitious plan: To build a playground within walking distance of every child. Darell Hammond: My Quest to Build a Playground Within Walking Distance of Every Child
The three clubs joined up to improve the town's playground facilities.
Director David Petrarca and writers/series creators Mark V. Olson and Will Scheffer handle his playground assault and its aftermath with an almost objective distance, often framing poor Wayne in a mid-range shot, so that instead of seeing his face in close-up, we see the entire tableau of his humiliation. Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
Many a swimming pool fund has run into choppy water and adventure playground appeals turned into assault courses!
They may stay on the periphery watching the recess-time basketball games and jump-rope competitions from the sidelines of the playground.
The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet.
It also means crouching in damp sand at playgrounds and wiping snotty noses and shitty bums and worrying constantly about whether or not you remembered to restock the diaper bag and, also, refill your Ativan prescription. The World According To Mom | Her Bad Mother
Students and teachers from Annandale North Public School are celebrating the end of a four-year battle to extend their playground.
Football and cricket were of course reserved for half-holidays, and played in a neighbouring field rented by the Doctor, and in the playground he restricted them to "chevy," which he considered, rightly enough, both gave them abundant exercise and kept them out of mischief. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
Even so, it is clearly an expensive alternative to football in the park or tig in the playground.
Thirteen children's playgrounds are to be shut down but swings, see-saws and slides on six other sites are to be saved.
The children's laughter was still ringing in my ears as I left the playground.
You read stories in the local papers about eleven-year-olds dealing in acid, dishing tabs out in the playground like they were sherbet lemons.
There is a bush near the school playground.
The children of Nuestros Niños Day Care Center wanted a playground with a miniature rock wall, five slides and a tic-tac-toe wall. Creating a Play Space in Brooklyn
Concentrating harder, he scoured the playground, trying to find out where and who the voice was coming from.
I am 25 years old, and I think that this elementary school bantering is childish, (this is going to get me flamed) and better left for the playgrounds. Supernatural Season Premiere Spoiler Pics : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
Danny is babysitting his cousin Debbie at the playground.
I remember the first time I saw a "dink:" it was on the playground at Kindercare. If Truth Is A Woman, She Wears A Skort
The children were beginning to straggle in from the playground.
The resort is a playground of the rich and famous.

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