How to Use sandlot in a Sentence

sandlot

noun
  • Never organized ball, but on the streets or in sandlot games.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Yes, a father’s commitment was great through the years on the sandlot.
    Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Much like the North Texas music scene, sandlot has its own culture.
    Stephanie Salas-Vega, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • His father, Joe, was a coal miner and caught for a sandlot baseball team.
    Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • His father, Joe, was a coal miner but caught for a sandlot baseball team.
    Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • His late father, Vern Carr, was a sandlot baseball star back in the day.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
  • At least give us a sandlot-style pick-up game with mic'd up MLB players.
    Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Jim Montgomery, whose sandlot days left him singing a familiar tune.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • It was earned in innings played all over this country in the biggest ballparks and the smallest sandlots.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Progressive Field is a long way from a sandlot game in Ontario.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
  • But years ago that fertile ground came in the likes of small towns, sandlot ball and the rugged life cultivated deep in coal mines.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
  • If the Bruins were to create a sandlot baseball team, it would be built around Hall.
    Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The Ravens’ offense was part sandlot and part leather helmet throwback, plus a dash of rugby.
    Mike Tanier, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Those facilities are signs of a cultural shift in youth sports away from backyards and sandlots.
    Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And just any sandlot game, the bat was passed onto the next hitter and sent across the diamond after each half inning.
    Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Bevell must design plays that suit everyone else but can still work when Wilson goes sandlot.
    Andy Benoit, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The team practices on a 40-by-60-yard sandlot behind the school’s northwest side.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2022
  • In many ways, the draft is like picking teams on the sandlot, where a captain may have to choose between a friend and a more talented player.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Both teams are part of a loose confederation of sandlot squads assembled throughout the south.
    Michael Hoinski, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This is a ballplayer who brings us back to our childhood when the best pitcher often was the best hitter and the first kid picked for a game on the blacktop or sandlot.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2021
  • Four years ago, the 60-year-old stayed busy working, playing sandlot baseball and spending time with his three granddaughters.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Ogawa’s weeknight practices are held on a sandlot next to a military base in Dakar’s Ouakam neighborhood.
    Ken Maguire, New York Times, 9 June 2016
  • More than a half-dozen of the boys and girls on Wafula’s sandlot team are orphans, which is why the coach uses baseball as a tool to teach larger lessons.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • The brand also upcycled denim scraps and cardboard tubing to make a shade structure for a Texas sandlot baseball team.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 July 2024
  • Could there be any better setting than a sandlot diamond for the first date of a Chicago political romance?
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • By noisily banging on a metal trash can to let batters know what pitch was coming, the Astros returned baseball to its sandlot roots.
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2020
  • His mother gently encourages him to try to play with the boys in the neighborhood -- a diverse crew of best friends who gather to play baseball on the local sandlot.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 June 2023
  • Clevinger wants to be out there like a school kid wildly pedaling his bike to a sandlot game with a glove threaded through the handlebars and baseball cards thwap-thwap-thwaping in the spokes.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In that light, the team, some baseball historians say, is offering a return to a sandlot mentality.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
  • But our catcher was Walter Laurie, whose father, Milton, ran a sandlot baseball team.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022

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