(n.) A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
Example Sentences:
(1) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(2) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(3) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
(4) Tracey Iglehart, a teacher at Rosa Parks elementary school in Berkeley, California, did not expect Donald Trump to show up on the playground.
(5) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(6) I walked across the playground, my heart full of flowers: I was loved by someone!
(7) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
(8) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
(9) Any place of mass communal touch is a potential magnet for spreading disease - such as children's playgrounds.
(10) At lunchtime I have a 45 minute cover duty with a pupil who requires individual supervision and we use some of the playground equipment.
(11) This was the childhood playground of actor Richard Harris, where he performed death-defying handstands and cycling tricks on the cliffside walls when not showboating by the sea.
(12) Observations of their children's playground behavior in preschool settings and measures of sociometric status were also obtained.
(13) You see it a lot in discussions that happen around schooling, the idea that you need to school boys differently to girls because all boys want to do is run around in the playground and kick the shit out of each other.
(14) More tellingly, pop has also become the playground of a privileged elite.
(15) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
(16) The playground of the school, filled with displaced families when the shell hit.
(17) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(18) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.
(19) When white people do it, it’s political engagement and revolution – and when black people do it, it’s violent and disruptive and the worst thing to ever happen, when in reality the worst thing to ever happen was Tamir Rice dying on an Ohio playground,” she said, referring to the 12-year-old killed by a white police officer in Cleveland last year.
(20) In order to evaluate the playground risk factors, 45 nursery schools of a USL were investigated.
Playhouse
Definition:
(n.) A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.
(n.) A house for children to play in; a toyhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(2) Playhouse Presents … Timeless is on Thursday 19 June at 9pm on Sky Arts
(3) And, apart from appearing in plays at his Belper grammar school, Bates became a regular visitor to Derby Playhouse, where he admired the work of two unknown actors, and later friends, John Osborne and John Dexter.
(4) Photograph: Tristram Kenton An intriguing possibility is Thea Sharrock, who has run a small theatre (the Southwark Playhouse in London) and worked impressively at both the National, with a brilliant rediscovery of Terence Rattigan's After the Dance , and in the West End, directing Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths in Peter Shaffer's Equus, but, at 36, would be very young.
(5) His stage work included two memorable Shakespearean kings – Leontes in The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre in 1988, and Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011 – and one quasi-Shakespearean ruler: a future King Charles III in Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse fantasy about the succession to the throne of the current Prince of Wales.
(6) We haven't tried to replicate them perfectly – in fact, we came to believe that the building they depict was architecturally impossible – but what we have tried to do is to create an indoor playhouse that Shakespeare would have recognised.
(7) At the Neighborhood Playhouse, he was taught movement by Martha Graham, who, he insisted, gave him the back injury that kept him out of uniform during the second world war.
(8) James Brining's revival of Sweeney Todd at West Yorkshire Playhouse last autumn was like a knife to the heart in its portrait of the madness of an austerity-hit Britain.
(9) That same year, with Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, Peck founded the La Jolla Playhouse in southern California.
(10) Swings, climbing frames, slides, playhouses and playcastles were responsible for 80% of the accidents.
(11) Outside the central London hotel where two episodes of Playhouse Presents are about to be shown to the press, there lurks not merely a solid phalanx of paparazzi, but a sizeable group of girls in their early teens, all craning to see if they can get a look into the lobby, where the object of their interest lies: Cara Delevingne.
(13) "The guy at Leeds Playhouse, Ian Brown, had this meeting and there was this business about, 'You should seek private sponsorship,' and he said: 'Well, if you tell me the billionaires I can find in Leeds I'll go and seek them.'
(14) There he enrolled at the Neighborhood Playhouse as Gregory Peck.
(15) In 1996 he wrote Blood Libel, a Norwich Playhouse commission.
(16) KS Cut: £283,000 (6.9% cut from Arts Council; 20% cut from city council) The Everyman, established in 1964, helped the early careers of a formidable list of theatrical talent including Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Alan Bleasdale, while the Playhouse is much older, built in 1866 as the Star Music Hall.
(17) Now Carrie: The Musical, based on the 1974 Stephen King horror novel, is to make its London debut at the Southwark Playhouse in May.
(18) Sky Arts champions single plays in Playhouse Presents.
(19) Their production of War and Peace is at the Playhouse, Nottingham (0115-941 9419), until Sunday, then tours.
(20) Koestler Trust (@KoestlerTrust) Thank you to all who have helped @KoestlerTrust 's transformation in recent years - now recognised by Arts Council National Portfolio status July 1, 2014 Updated at 12.20pm BST 12.06pm BST The Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, which describes itself as the only surviving Regency playhouse has lost its funding.