Sentence examples for schoolyard I from inspiring English sources

But since both campaigns have degraded to tactics most of us abandoned in the schoolyard, I'm grateful to be off their radar screens.

In the schoolyard I would swap, copy and even compile mix-tape compilations of games on larger cassettes, writing start numbers on the inlays.

This one is a taunt worthy of the schoolyard, I realize.

I was eight by then, and I didn't notice that, from the almost 600 kids gathered in that schoolyard, I was the only one Herr Wriede was not talking to".

The Gore campaign and the campaign of Gov. George W. Bush of Texas have spent much of the last week trading bitter accusations that resemble the schoolyard chant, "I know you are, but what am I?" Mr. Gore and his aides have asserted that Mr. Bush, as a former oilman who has received large sums of campaign money from oil and gas companies, would be unable to stand up to oil-industry interests.

But as I got older and moved passed the schoolyard culture, I gained a different perspective of my father, one that stays with me as a father myself.

"I remember being up for a scrap in the schoolyard, and I can take a punch".

No one but an organization with an enormous chip on its shoulder engages in schoolyard "see-I-told-you-so" antics, especially an organization which continually bullies people into believing it isn't a bully.

The speech lurched between schoolyard bragging ("I live in a bigger, more beautiful apartment" than the "élite" and "I live in the White House, too, which is really great"), the usual whining about reporters ("sick," "bad," "dishonest" people), and insults to Arizona's two Republican senators, one of whom is currently battling brain cancer.

What at first seems to be articulated in terms of a schoolyard dispute — "I never said nothing!" she insists — quickly slides into a gangster patois: "All I know is that know is that I'm as clean as a whistle, baby / I didn't let the cat out".

I grew up in East Harlem, in an apartment building, across the street from a schoolyard, where I would go to play pickup games.