Used in a Sentence

sandlot

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sandlot.

Editorial note

The loss of sandlot baseball in the US is more about the rise of basketball, football, and soccer, than helicopter parents.

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Quick take

A vacant lot where children play.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A vacant lot where children play.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sandlot.

noun

A vacant lot where children play.

Example sentences

1

The loss of sandlot baseball in the US is more about the rise of basketball, football, and soccer, than helicopter parents.

2

As long as you can get water, some tumbleweed sandlot in the desert is fine, just cover it in cheap panels and buy the biggest AC unit you can.

3

If you visit the Sandlot at Coors Field, you can actually have 'original recipe' Blue Moon.

4

We're so far from The Sandlot the game has lost all passion.

5

We finished watching Sandlot yesterday with my kids for the first time.

6

And from the same period you will find a sandlot football in the novel The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan --fiction, but presumably plausible.

7

The smell of fresh-baked apple pies frequently wafts across your lawn from their windowsills, along with the sounds of the neighborhood kids playing sandlot baseball.

8

Personally, I don't want to play in that sandlot, but a lot of others, do.

9

For example, a local sandlot game doesn't need six professional umpires, instant replay and a strike-zone-tracking pitch-plotting camera system, but a major-league championship game does.

10

Personally, I think those of us from the sandlot deserve a swing as well.

11

Should I pick Alice first in the game on the sandlot?

12

But that solution wouldn't scale well - I foresee a nightmare scenario where hundreds of people are trying to sell their fractional ownership of a sandlot, except for one disgruntled group member.

Quote examples

1

I can see the famous kissing scene from Squints in "The Sandlot" movie remade once again.

2

But when push comes to shove, how many are going to (or willing to) build a baseball launcher so they can avoid "pickling the Beast" (Sandlot reference)?

3

I often say "I read -- well -- I listened to [The Sandlot]" and "consume" is too awkward to use colloquially as "I consumed [The Sandlot]".

4

It's hard enough to get through the hackerrank-style "gotcha" questions, but it's even harder to feel connected to an interviewer who wants to talk about their team culture in terms of rollerblading or playing sandlot volleyball.

Proper noun examples

1

(Sandlot game with a wiffle ball.) Stallman and the FSF make the claim that there is a new set of human rights concerning software that we weren't aware of before.

2

When I was about 10 years old I wanted to make a movie (it was going to be a basketball version of The Sandlot) but my parents didn't own a camcorder and couldn't afford to buy me one so I was out of luck and never got to experiment creatively in that way.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use sandlot in a sentence?

The loss of sandlot baseball in the US is more about the rise of basketball, football, and soccer, than helicopter parents.

What does sandlot mean?

A vacant lot where children play.

What part of speech is sandlot?

sandlot is commonly used as noun.