How to Use field in a Sentence

field

1 of 3 noun
  • He gazed out across the fields.
  • She hopes to find work in the health field.
  • She is a pioneer in the field of genetic research.
  • Now, the field is down to eight.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • What’s the next big thing in your field?
    JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2025
  • One shot made from the field, eight turnovers.
    Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • And not all of that will take place on the field.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • On the field of his life, his shoes were well-worn.
    Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Isaac Collins came in to play left field.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2026
  • There are many people in your field.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Gumbs went 3 of 7 from the field for eight points.
    Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The field has chosen not to look.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Medicine is a field that builds on itself.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 24 May 2026
  • That carries over to the field, too.
    Chad Graff, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • While this is all great news, fans will need to see it on the field.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the combine is way more than just the on-field drills.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Veen’s struggles — on and off the field — are proof of that.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • Enters with the fewest starts (2) of any horse in the field.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 2 May 2026
  • The Browns field the league’s best defense.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • What are Nacua’s off-field issues?
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The quickest way to get on the field is special teams.
    Jon MacHota, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Much of the album was recorded in a field.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Stop thinking of others in your field as threats.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Lined up all over the field, including in the slot.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • One of them is slapped on the field by a frustrated boy.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Premium bars are on the field for fans with floor seats.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The nights on the field stretch into mornings.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025
  • On the field, Prysock learned his time from a fellow-prospect.
    Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Gumbs’ time on the second practice field didn’t last long.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Flipping the field in many ways feels like a city flipping a script.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025

field

2 of 3 adjective
  • While her feet stopped after the cross-field run to the set, the sprint was still on.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Mayfield completed his first six passes before misfiring on a cross-field, 13-yard toss to Payne Durham, who was wide open in the end zone.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Mayfield completed his first six passes before misfiring on a cross-field, 13-yard toss to Payne Durham, who was wide open in the end zone.
    Dallas Morning News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The research demonstrates that the interaction between core rotation and cross-field drifts produces a larger effect than either component does on its own.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Kyle Tucker and Edwin Diaz weren’t among the Dodgers parading onto a mid-field stage to get a ring from team owner Mark Walter.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Emdee noted that while cross-field flow was previously considered the primary driver of asymmetry, this study shows that parallel flow driven by the rotating core is just as significant.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • After kicking a go-ahead field goal with six seconds left, Ole Miss was awarded a safety on its final kickoff when Georgia’s return team tried a cross-field lateral that hit the pylon.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of sprinting for goal, the January signing from Atalanta calmly played it back to Alvarez, whose cross-field pass sent Nahuel Molina clear on the other side.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • While Carneiro’s late kick was the decisive score, Ole Miss was awarded a safety on its final kickoff when Georgia’s return team tried a cross-field lateral that hit the pylon with 1 second left.
    Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In the sequence below, Bernardo miscontrols a cross-field pass, and when left wing-back Arthur Masuaku wins possession, Cancelo has already committed forward with four others in red.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 18 June 2026
  • While 200mm can be challenging for night sky shooting without a star tracker, the lens is still useful for mid-field targets and creative compositions, such as the Milky Way behind an interesting foreground.
    Tantse Walter, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Coppermine plans to invest roughly $8 million into a new soccer-specific complex at Gibbons Field in South Baltimore, expanding the former Cardinal Gibbons School into a multi-field facility with classrooms, film rooms and performance training spaces.
    Michael Howes, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2026

field

3 of 3 verb
  • The shortstop fielded the ground ball.
  • They expect to field a strong team this year.
  • Last week she fielded two offers on her house.
  • The senator fielded the reporters' questions.
  • His secretary will field requests for more information.
  • And the next step was fielding those punts cleanly.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There was Skubal, fielding a bunt to the first-base side.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That’s not to say that a lucky few films aren’t fielding offers.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Manny fields it, kind of checks and gets the pause, throws it to second.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Adames kneeled down to field the ball, his knee not quite touching the ground, then rose and fired.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • Judge fielded it cleanly and threw out Massey at the plate.
    CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Tarik Skubal fielding a bunt toward the first-base side.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Ponce was injured in the third inning trying to field a ground ball.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Each battery fields eight missiles.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2026
  • What China is fielding is scale.
    Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Arraez fielded the grounder and made a quick toss to Adames for the first out.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And also, of course, fielding all of these questions.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • While fresh faces in the locker room bring a lot of good, fielding a young team is never easy.
    Ava Dicecca, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026
  • De La Salle couldn’t field the ball cleanly and the throw to first base went high.
    Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • One will field dress in the open while the other guards from 30 or 40 yards away.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Angels cannot hit, cannot pitch and certainly cannot field.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Hart fielded a bounce pass from Jalen Brunson at the top of the key.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Numbers were low, and much too low to field a junior varsity.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • Cut down on fielding pesky calls and texts by exploring options to block them.
    Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 7 May 2026
  • Bridges fielded a pass, spun around and heaved an errant 3-pointer.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • No more trying to find time to field grounders between football practice and school.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Muncy fielded the ball cleanly, turned and threw as Betts was reaching third base.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Coleman fields a grounder and throws it to second, bringing up the bottom of the third.
    Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Your hands are free to field a grounder, sign an autograph, do whatever.
    Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • Mitchell fielded his best game of the 2025 season.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025

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