field day

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Recent Examples of field day As a teacher of middle-grade students, the old-fashioned blue-ribbon field day was my least favorite day of the year. Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 11 June 2025 The challenge of playing an aging robot has been a field day for Criss, an opportunity to draw upon his formal training in physical theater. Vincent Tullo, New York Times, 16 May 2025 Both schools also share a physical education teacher, Adam Alaniz, who decided to have the two schools share a field day at Saylor, which has a far bigger lawn for the events. Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025 His goofy delivery gave social media content creators a field day. Mike Jones, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for field day
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Noun
  • The dual-threat act hasn’t skipped a beat — including a five-RBI outburst against Washington in one of his four outings.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • Elsewhere at the box office, Jurassic World Rebirth looks to collect nearly $39 million in its sophomore outing for a North American war chest of $230.9 million.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Whilst the revels did flourish, Freeman labored upon his own grand design — the fair Castle Gwynn, a stone bastion of olden style, rising proudly across from the fields of festivity in Arrington.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
  • So the couple also decided to give Huckleberry an important role in their gender revel.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Up next: There are no major earnings after Monday’s closing bell or before Tuesday’s open.
    Jeff Marks,Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 7 July 2025
  • Not rehearsed behind closed doors—but tested in the open.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • In Europe, this member of the family Alaudidae is called a shore lark, because it is found in wintertime along the seashores.
    Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • That colossal production, which involved the construction of villages in which to film and the onscreen involvement of the host country’s armed forces, began as a lark and turned into an albatross.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • His final goal for the club was the winner over Everton in the Merseyside derby on April 2.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Seattle’s Cal Raleigh — the majors’ home run leader — Minnesota’s Byron Buxton, Washington’s James Wood, Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr., Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz, Tampa Bay’s Junior Caminero and Sacramento’s Brent Rooker all agreed to participate in the derby before Chisholm was announced.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • His shakshuka takes the tomato-and-pepper mold and spins it into a gambol through fields of celery and coriander seeds, ground chipotles and sweet paprika.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In the winning first moments of the show, Mills gambols on as the Narrator, wielding a paint palette and, instead of a brush, a tuft of rainbow-colored gauze.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Running a gymkhana in the 600SL would be like asking Her Majesty to run a boot-camp obstacle course.
    Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • In the episode, Ken talks with editor Jake Lingeman about the newest gymkhana car, the Hoonifox, and his aspirations to film it in Miami with an '80s Miami Vice vibe.
    Maxwell B. Mortimer, Car and Driver, 14 May 2020
Noun
  • Winner of the Tony for Best Musical among a raft of prestigious awards, the diabolically funny romp was based on a novel by Roy Horniman.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2025
  • McConnell finished with 12 points, nine rebounds, six assists and four steals in 24 minutes of Indiana’s 108-91 Game 6 romp of OKC.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 20 June 2025

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“Field day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/field%20day. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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