Sentence examples for played marbles from inspiring English sources

On wet days they played marbles in the kitchen passages.

Father's letters from Belgium told stories of grown men who played marbles on the streets.

Buddy and I sat on a wrought-iron bench with David while Mark and Jeff played marbles with two boys.

For fun, he and his schoolmates "played marbles or flew a kite," he said, and the neighborhood was their world.

"Iranian people are happy with their leaders," Monad Omidvar, a 38-year-old farm laborer, told me as he played marbles with his friends beside the road near Mashhad.

When I first knew them, they were little, all around 10 years old; they played soccer in the churchyard with punctured balls that lay flat as pancakes until you kicked them; they played marbles hunched over in the dust of the dry season, and at night, under a single bare bulb, they slapped down poker games using incomplete or mismatched decks.

MILLENNIUM MARBLES TOURNAMENT, an attempt to surpass the Guinness Book of Records entry for the most people to play marbles at the same time in the same place.

When she started to menstruate, she stopped playing marbles.

Ms. Sharma said that her brother was playing marbles with the neighborhood children.

Robin and Dorrie didn't care about poker so they would run downstairs to play marbles.

Gröning used to play marbles with the shop owner's daughter, Anne.