sports field

Example Sentences

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Land is already so scarce across the archipelago halfway between Australia and Hawaii that the international airport runway doubles as a makeshift sports field.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Marshall’s plans to demolish a former youth hostel built during the Art Deco period to make way for a sports field was blocked by the Historic Preservation Board, which mandated he preserve the building’s facade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Condemning the attack, Hamas said it had "no military installations in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon" and that the site targeted was an "open sports field".

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

What was once a landfill is now home to a large sports field, an ecological salt marsh, a dog run, a boardwalk, manicured lawns and Manhattan’s first public beach.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2023

The next field along from our sports field was burnt flapjack brown.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell