Used in a Sentence

bleachers

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bleachers.

Editorial note

They even sell a little set of bleachers [3] to keep the cards organized on your desk.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a sports novel by John Grisham, first published on September 9, 2003.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bleachers gathered in one view.

N

a sports novel by John Grisham, first published on September 9, 2003.

N

an American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2013 by singer, producer and songwriter Jack Antonoff.

N

raised, tiered rows of benches.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bleachers.

N

a sports novel by John Grisham, first published on September 9, 2003.

N

an American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2013 by singer, producer and songwriter Jack Antonoff.

N

raised, tiered rows of benches.

N

the fourth studio album by American rock band Bleachers, released on March 8, 2024.

Example sentences

1

They even sell a little set of bleachers [3] to keep the cards organized on your desk.

2

If we could have someone with an Xbox controller in the bleachers somewhere that would be cheating.

3

An informal group meets in the bleachers every day around 1-2pm (sunniest time of day), with everyone taking turns to watch your stuff.

4

As if a kid on the bleachers life has been improved because a fellow student succeeded in putting a ball through a metal ring.

5

For flair I threw it another ten feet up (from the top of the bleachers).

6

From the bleachers, this looks like a lot of fun actually.

7

Just go sit in the bleachers at a Red Sox game.

8

This doesn't seem to be pushy parents giving their five your old children pushup bras and entering them into pageants, or yelling insults from the bleachers.

9

Otherwise through peer pressure (cool kids behind the bleachers).

10

What I'm saying is that the ten consecutive baskets make the spectators in the bleachers temporarily forget that they are watching a 60% shooter.

11

Looking around my home area, I found HS football bleachers showing up as buildings and an outdoor basketball court showing up as a building.

12

Pinochet’s soldiers rounded up thousands in the capital’s sports stadiums and, then and there, suspects were marched into the locker rooms and corridors and bleachers and tortured and shot dead.

Quote examples

1

FriendFeed's business model is more "swing for the bleachers" and success would mean scaling to the size of Twitter.

2

The "little guy" can't even afford to sit in the bleachers of this fight.

3

Reducing what I was trying to express to "ignore them and they will go away" has put the ball in the bleachers.

4

The trend in the past few decades in professional sports has been towards more of the space being used for lower-density "premium" seating like skyboxes and fewer bleachers, reducing the seat count.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bleachers in a sentence?

They even sell a little set of bleachers [3] to keep the cards organized on your desk.

What does bleachers mean?

a sports novel by John Grisham, first published on September 9, 2003.

What part of speech is bleachers?

bleachers is commonly used as N.