Example sentences for: schoolyard

How can you use “schoolyard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cowboy, detective, gangster, thriller, western —all refer to film categories, though gangster (or, rather, gangsterism ) can be many kinds of coercive behavior, even schoolyard bullying.

  • This reaction is easy to understand: I was, at the time, facing the oppression of anti-Semitic schoolyard thugs, and in my revenge-fantasies, Bugsy Siegel and Gurrah Shapiro were lining up on my side, blackjacks in hand.

  • (That's why millions of decent Americans watch Just Shoot Me : It'll be the talk of the schoolyard tomorrow.

  • In Argentina, the Buenos Aires Herald blamed the Arkansas schoolyard massacre on the proliferation of firearms in the United States and said in an editorial that Argentine citizens were also rapidly arming themselves as a reaction to a surging crime rate.

  • --hypothetical schoolyard chant 40 years ago that accounts for the commander's hypothetical hostility to women.


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