How to Use sandlot in a Sentence

sandlot

noun
Definition of sandlotnext
  • 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
  • Yes, a father’s commitment was great through the years on the sandlot.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The team practices on a 40-by-60-yard sandlot behind the school’s northwest side.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2022
  • If the Bruins were to create a sandlot baseball team, it would be built around Hall.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Much like the North Texas music scene, sandlot has its own culture.
    — Stephanie Salas-Vega, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • His father, Joe, was a coal miner and caught for a sandlot baseball team.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • Never organized ball, but on the streets or in sandlot games.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 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
  • The Ravens’ offense was part sandlot and part leather helmet throwback, plus a dash of rugby.
    — Mike Tanier, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Progressive Field is a long way from a sandlot game in Ontario.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
  • His father, Joe, was a coal miner but caught for a sandlot baseball team.
    — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • Jalen Hurts, better suited for a grind-it-out game, was forced into sandlot ball.
    — Berry Tramel, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jim Montgomery, whose sandlot days left him singing a familiar tune.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Those two scouts, including Carlos Gomez, a longtime comber of Venezuela’s sandlots, were the first to give Marquez a tryout.
    — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • For decades on end, Babe Ruth’s name was a staple of America’s sports conversation, even among sandlot kids who knew little more than the sound of it.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
  • Those facilities are signs of a cultural shift in youth sports away from backyards and sandlots.
    — Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The young Cuban refugee grew up to be a man in America, worked hard, asked for no handouts, shared his love of baseball on dusty sandlots in California and raised three sons of his own.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Having played sandlot ball in the Maxwell Street neighborhood, he was bound to be popular with Chicago fans.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Bevell must design plays that suit everyone else but can still work when Wilson goes sandlot.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • It’s one of the most common things heard during sandlot football games as quarterbacks try to test their arm strength and accuracy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Both teams are part of a loose confederation of sandlot squads assembled throughout the south.
    — Michael Hoinski, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The players from Alabama colleges, high schools, industrial leagues and sandlots who've hit at least 100 MLB home runs.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al.com, 13 June 2019

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