Example sentences for: schoolyard

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

  • USA Today leads with that schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, which also makes the front at the New York Times , Washington Post , and Los Angeles Times . The WP and LAT lead with President Clinton's remarks in Uganda about how, with its slave trade, the U.S. wronged Africa.

  • The NYT says that the timing of the announcement was driven by Clinton's desire to dramatize government action in the wake of the Arkansas schoolyard shootings, even though none of the types of weapons used there are affected by the decision.

  • And the schoolyard murder in Jonesboro, Ark.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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