How To Use Schoolyard In A Sentence
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I'm not sure who told them it was wise to stand up to the schoolyard bully, but that same person may want to remind them that the bully is generally the bully because he can hit really, really hard.
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The timidity of the boy afraid to fight, a common object of scorn for schoolyard bullies, was recast as a clinical pathology.
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When the pips sounded over the tannoy for the end of school, Alec was away like a rocket and across the schoolyard with the first leavers.
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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They should be protected from parents who pass along prejudices that lead to schoolyard bullying and, later in life, hate crimes.
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Some years ago I adjourned with a friend to a nearby schoolyard net for a recreational hit.
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It's like watching your child being ragged in the schoolyard.
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The group, run by 15 staffers and volunteers, also advises youth on how to ward off wedgies and other forms of schoolyard intimidation with their Child Assault Prevention Program.
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Only the clamour of kids playing in the schoolyard indicates a sign of life.
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Regarding not understanding the difference between Down's and Cerebral Palsy - when I was a kid, the epithets "mongo" (as in "mongoloid," as in the outdated, offensive word for a person with Down's syndrome) and "spastic" (as in the offensive word for a person with Cerebral Palsy) were used interchangably as schoolyard insults.
Please avoid 'this' phrasae & the Xmas Craft Fair Sannich
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Mum will tell you that it's not a cheap business paying for uniforms especially with the added wear and tear caused by skateboarding and playing footy in the schoolyard.
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Lady Bird Johnson focused her initial "beautification" efforts in Washington, D.C. with urban renewal, landscaping, summer jobs programs and renovating schoolyards and city park projects; it served as a pilot for which different cities later adapted aspects that addressed their unique deficiencies.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony: The First Lady's First 100 Days
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It was fodder for water cooler and schoolyard discussions and dissections.
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They feel they're saving the kid a lot of anguish and schoolyard teasing.
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Children would settle disputes by trading punches or insults in the schoolyard.
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The loudest voices are those of the blustering schoolyard bully who crudely masks his own inadequacies by calling others sissies and punks.
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Just keep clear of him and don't join any line-ups like we had in the schoolyard today or there'll be big trouble.
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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The smell of Asian cuisine filled the schoolyard and children danced to the Indian sitar.
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He was the chief suspect in the schoolyard stabbing death of a 7-year-old at an elementary school.
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I ran faster than ever, reaching the schoolyard quite out of breath.
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The schoolhouse is a dry stone structure of local granite and slate and comprises only two classrooms and a gray schoolyard beneath the shadow of the mountain.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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However, on the whole, it doesn't sound all that different from regular, everyday schoolyard bullying, and I doubt that's ever going to stop.
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The natural, unsophisticated beauty of wildflowers in full bloom in spring and fascinating autumnal-tinted leaves in the schoolyards reminded us of the warm love of our mothers.
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However, some will need continued encouragement and positive reinforcement from parents and teachers for this good start not to become swamped by schoolyard attitudes.
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Mr Twentyman said violent entertainment was desensitising children and adding a frightening new level of danger to schoolyard fights.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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Principals saw the girls as bad schoolyard influences and priests shunned them as moral lepers.
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There's no point in arresting that pusher who hangs out in the schoolyard.
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He is another lamebrain whose considerable talents are hampered by an out-of-control belligerency that's better suited to a raucous schoolyard game.
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And by the way, just as these politicians flattered, overlooked, and cosseted Murdoch in desperate pursuit and defense of their own self-interest -- the way schoolyard victims are obsequiously and tail-waggingly respectful to schoolyard bullies -- so too did both the Labor and Conservative parties coddle the indigenous Murdochs of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.
Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know
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The old decommissioned chimneystack rose from the schoolyard like a tower erected in honour of learning.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Some sort of twisted, thorny wire netting had been erected across the opening, which led into a schoolyard.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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My parents couldn't figure out why this didn't happen when I watched more violent cartoons such as Transformers, or even worse, M.A.S.K., known in the schoolyard as one of the more scarier toons.
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A marketing explosion of video games, cartoons and other assorted merchandise, the presence of these pint-sized imaginary creatures can be felt on any schoolyard, popular to a truly insane degree.
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And as far as the epithets, and language, and everything else, you could hear that in any schoolyard.
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Then just fast-forward a little bit going to school and all the neuroses that the kids have been taught to have are brought into the schoolyard, and the kids start coming down on one another.
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Or, since the kid likely never lived who used a filthy word just "fleetingly," perhaps the Supreme Court will consider issuing a second ban on the wall-to-wall use of s - and f-words in the schoolyard.
Norman Lear: Dear Justice Scalia...
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The contractor had bought and planted six small trees for the schoolyard.
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Tromping over to the side of the schoolyards, the kid leaned against a tree and folded his arms, scanning the terrain for prey.
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Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
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Mari Wilson and the songs, resplendent with obligatory handclaps, were made to be sung in schoolyards by girls in polka dot dresses and dayglo bobbysox.
The Music Fix
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MAJOR AVITAL LEIBOVICH, SPOKESWOMAN, ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES: According to our initial investigation with the Southern Command, we understand that, from the schoolyard, there was fire towards Israeli -- towards IDF sources, really, and we retaliated with fire.
CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009
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Their beloved son was beaten at school each day for refusing to fight the schoolyard bigots and bullies.
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The fish itself was a big bruiser of a portion that looked like it bullied everyone in the schoolyard.
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Once upon a time, it was a schoolyard taunt to label someone "four-eyes," but in Taiwan, they have adopted an unusual take on such labels.
Paul Rockower: A Taiwanese Take on Four-Eyes
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You turn slowly to face a schoolyard packed with chavs in baseball caps and tracksuits, the uniform for our times.
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It was the look of them, partly: the skanky paper, the low-mirth smudginess of their production; but also the dismalness of the schoolyard world they portrayed: discipline versus cheekiness, small victories, practical jokes, jeering, every teacher undernourished, every kid drawn as though he had rickets.
Kalooki Nights
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Lincoln's schoolyard was covered with tiny black cinders that stung the flesh in a fall.
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With monetary union, the real economy of Euroland becomes something like a schoolyard game of crack-the-whip.
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The media should focus more attention on how to improve the taxpayer-financed public school system and how to reduce bullying and schoolyard violence.
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No, it's a small child being bullied in the schoolyard, crying that he's had enough.
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Em scanned the schoolyard with drooped eyelids in a pleasant daydream trying to find a liable distraction.
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Old-fashioned schoolyard hazing has escalated to instances of extortion, emotional terrorism, and kids toting guns to school.
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Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
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But I don't respond well to threats, and I was not going to let this schoolyard bully intimidate me.
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Nowadays, schoolyards and community playgrounds and public parks are barren on a weekday afternoon.
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When screaming schoolyard bullies act up, the teacher often isolates them in a corner, forcing them to reflect upon their actions.
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I remember I was shooting baskets in the old elementary schoolyard.
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We weren't allowed to talk during lunch, until we were done with the meal and out in the schoolyard.
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Despite hours frittered away watching the tube, playing video games and surfing the Internet, the majority of kids are still finding time to head out to the local park or schoolyard.
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Bullied by classmates for his long, thin nose - "Anteater snout," they call him, along with "Monster schnoz" and "Elephant honker" - he finally defends his honor by punching the schoolyard leader.
Book review: 'Destiny and Desire' by Carlos Fuentes
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Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
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Soccer Rivals Cult, ￡3.99 Who always gets the blame in schoolyard soccer?
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Once upon a time, it was a schoolyard taunt to label someone four-eyes, but in Taiwan, they have adopted an unusual take on such labels: sporting sport eyeglass frames sans the lenses.
Paul Rockower: A Taiwanese Take on Four-Eyes
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I am denounced as a "defeatist" here, and the subject of schoolyard taunts here.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Instead of seeing dodgeball as a game where alpha males can relive their schoolyard dominance, they see it as a game for everyone.
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Do you play tag in the schoolyard?
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Dozens of children chased a soccer ball on the concrete; in the dusty center of the schoolyard behind them, dozens more chased another ball toward netless goalposts.
Christian Beckwith: Greening the Barrio: Part 4
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Most people knew of a schoolyard bully when they were younger and always hoped bad and awful things would befoul the bully and maybe even his family (not that I would know from experience, mind you).
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This is fodder for schoolyard scuttlebutt, a ‘guaranteed to be repeated until you're sick of it’ situation that will definitely work your last nerve.
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Most of the other schools were surrounded with fields of neatly clipped grass, but Lincoln's schoolyard was covered with stone, tiny black cinders that stung the flesh in a fall.
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Where do they get the authority and encouragement to practise their childish, schoolyard insolence and contempt of our leaders?
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We would punish him, with really typical schoolyard bullying.
