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take the field

VERB
  1. go on the playing field, of a football team
  2. go on a campaign; go off to war

How To Use take the field In A Sentence

  • It will be the last time that these group of athletes take the field together before they are scattered to the winds of their individual sporting ambitions.
  • He begged Washington to remember his “fellow suffers” when he raised supplies for the Virginia Regiment and remind the commissary “that we have no tents or any other necessarys fitt to take the field wt.” George Washington’s First War
  • In rugby, played by consenting adults who tacitly accept a degree of how's-your-father whenever they take the field, pretty much anything goes, especially in the darkened recesses of scrum, ruck and maul. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Today they take the field against county champions Essex.
  • Instead, the first two teams to take the field in the Six Nations this year trotted uncertainly into the watery sunlessness of a late winter afternoon in France and played with a lack of enlightenment that raised the question of why anyone ever thought of Paris as the ‘City of Light.’
  • Cole is as likely to become an underwear model as he is to take the field against Scotland this afternoon wearing a tutu. Times, Sunday Times
  • On certain passing downs, all three safeties might take the field together.
  • When the first striker is out, the fieldsman will take his place, the striker will bowl, and the bowler will take the field. The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering
  • The Test was forfeited when they refused to take the field after tea. Times, Sunday Times
  • In rugby, played by consenting adults who tacitly accept a degree of how's-your-father whenever they take the field, pretty much anything goes, especially in the darkened recesses of scrum, ruck and maul. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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