How To Use Conker In A Sentence
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All conkers and strings are supplied by the competition organisers.
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The poor creatures aren't even allowed to play conkers at school any more.
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Competition in the ring was ferocious as fearless competitors risked their knuckles and aimed to split the conker at the end of a leather string held by their opponent.
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More than a thousand conkers had been harvested from the arboretum's 102 horse chestnut trees for use in a variety of games.
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Strong conkers were gathered in the woods, carefully dried, bored and threaded onto pieces of strong string with a secure double knot under the conker.
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Next we took the valley bottom road and there met only two walkers and a laden tractor and then, after a conker tree and a lime tree, reached the farmstead of Lower Askew.
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No danger of falling coconuts there, just the occasional conker.
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I read that certain games are to be banned in school playgrounds, including conkers and skipping, for fear of accidents.
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Which means we can lace up our toughest conkers and let battle commence.
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He holds the world record for conkers by demolishing 306 in an hour, but has not yet won the Irish title.
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At the hamlet's Milbank House, a lime, a conker and a turkey oak shade a stone culvert and set their seed and nuts.
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In some areas, horse chestnut trees have been cut down because of the possibility that children might be hurt playing conkers.
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Which means we can lace up our toughest conkers and let battle commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The winner is obviously the player with the intact conker.
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Apparently, this made the conker more malleable, allowing it to absorb the impact of my prize pickled nut.
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Some friends and I were innocently collecting conkers, when suddenly the owner arrived on the scene with a gun in his hand.
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Heroes went with scraped knees and conker fights and penknives that took stones out of horses' hooves.
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Baking a conker makes it more likely to shatter.
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Apparently, this made the conker more malleable, allowing it to absorb the impact of my prize pickled nut.
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Apparently, this made the conker more malleable, allowing it to absorb the impact of my prize pickled nut.
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We all have memories of playing conkers, or dunking apples and collecting leaves at this time of year.
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Governors and staff imposed the ban on the traditional break-time game because of fears the conkers could cause an anaphylactic reaction in children with nut allergies.
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Under horse chestnut trees the first gleaming brown conkers can be found, surrounded by segments of their soft shells.
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In some areas, horse chestnut trees have been cut down because of the possibility that children might be hurt playing conkers.
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Is there a horse chestnut tree that does not produce conkers?
The Sun
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A new survey of teachers found a sixth of schools have banned conkers because of health and safety fears.
The Sun
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Under horse chestnut trees the first gleaming brown conkers can be found, surrounded by segments of their soft shells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which means we can lace up our toughest conkers and let battle commence.
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We hark back to the good old days of collecting conkers, splashing in streams and building dens.
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Did you opt for a few preliminary skirmishes to test out the ability of your conker to achieve the all important swing/force ratio, or did you immediately challenge the owner of the champion conker in the hope of immediate glory.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
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Is there a horse chestnut tree that does not produce conkers?
The Sun
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In other words a nationwide band of amateurs who watch the landscape for signs of seasonal change - the first cuckoo, the first frogspawn, the first conker, that sort of thing.
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And those hair-conkers who twisted the Kinect to their will. seemingly msimilarg it perform feats for which it was never designed?
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Also because of ‘conker’ season and the fact that he knew secrets about how to make your conker really strong, we grew brave enough to speak to him every day.
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Why can't the servants of the nanny state stick to outlawing other white-knuckle sports, like the games of conkers they've been targeting over the past few days?
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Back at the cottage and among wine, rakia and music we played the traditional game of cracking one another's Easter eggs together, something like the game of conkers in England.
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I picked up a shiny, fresh conker in the street as I walked around Canonbury and Highbury for a couple of hours.
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The HSE then quietly and politely explains on their website that no, they are not banning Pin the Tail on the Donkey, or conkers, or candyfloss, or flip flops, or pancake races.
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Which means we can lace up our toughest conkers and let battle commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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An old date book, a leaf from a tree in Greece, a conker from Paris, a knife stolen from the Ritz, part of a love letter, etc. - all are carefully arranged to create the best effect.
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Traditional games such as skipping, marbles and conkers are disappearing from school yards, not because children are scared of skinning their knees, but because their teachers are scared of being sued.
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Plan B was to use a drill, of the electric kind, but this proved hazardous to one health from the result of a clip round ear from father who didn't take kindly to the holes left in the kitchen worktop after the drill had passed through the conker.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Natalya Estemirova's heirs: The women who risk all to expose Chechnya's horrors Tour de France 2009: police hunt gunman as Oscar Freire and Julian Dean are shot at
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There are no cheap options of 'marlies' or 'conkers'; today it is all games consoles and music players!
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They have done more conkers than a row of horse chestnut trees in December.
The Sun
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Picking the right conker is a big gamble, but usually as long as it's fresh and has a nice gloss it will be fine.
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The inevitable dehydration that this involves causes the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds and cushions the brain to dry up, allowing the brain to rattle around inside the skull like a conker in a biscuit tin.
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‘We take the conker out on the pub crawl and then before a match it gets passed around and we rub it rather hopefully,’ Dave continued.
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You can cheat by storing last season's conkers for a year, giving them plenty of time to become rock-like.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now on reading a typical party election manifesto, I have never been made aware of any party political concerns about the disgraceful risk of being hit on the head by a conker.
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The winner is obviously the player with the intact conker.
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These ranged from the traditional knockabout with a conker on a string, to a conkernut shy, a play on the coconut version, and wingseed throwing.
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THE playground game of conkers could become extinct as Britain's horse chestnut trees are wiped out by disease and a plague of foreign moths.
The Sun
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Overprotectionism is killing the age old theory that sometimes the best way to learn what is dangerous is to get hit in the eye with a conker…
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This month, a local council lopped the branches off conker trees to stop children hurting themselves and the trees are to be replaced with a different species.
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It is crazy that in a society where playing with conkers is banned at school, circumstances like this are overlooked.
The Sun
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In many schools, playing conkers is banned or only allowed if goggles are worn.
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There's just something so special about a freshly opened conker - but then the shininess fades and thoughts turned to preparing it for combat.
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THE playground game of conkers could become extinct as Britain's horse chestnut trees are wiped out by disease and a plague of foreign moths.
The Sun
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Emmeline might have been referring to conkers, or jacks, or marbles, for all I knew that morning.
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Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
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Children can look out for other large tree seeds such as beech masts and acorns which can be sown in the same way as the conkers.
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The conkers are growing fat in their green shells on the horse chestnut trees.
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To recover they need to feast on conkers, acorns and sweet chestnuts, which is why visitors are exhorted not to gather these items.
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Which means we can lace up our toughest conkers and let battle commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children just love conkers, which is a game that many of them had never played before.
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Over cautious schools have recently banned tag, conkers and swings.
The Sun
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The victorious team in each heat is the one with the most remaining conkers, once each of the pairings has a result.
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But when you show me children, it is easier for me to believe the horrors if I also see them playing Knock Down Ginger, or conkers, or whatever.
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We have also had schools banning children from playing conkers and, recently, another which prohibited football unless a ‘softer’ ball was used.
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Here, each competitor randomly selects a conker from a bag, rather than play with his own equipment.
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It's a beautiful thing, the leather rich brown and shiny as a conker and trimmed with brass.
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Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
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The conkers are growing fat in their green shells on the horse chestnut trees.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Jamie Oliver's school dinners improve exam results, report finds School leavers want a prom just like on US television show The OC Soho House, New York: Hotel watch
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I can't think of anything less palatable than setting my alarm for 8.30 am and actually getting up when it goes off - it makes me feel like a conker being prized from its casing too soon.
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Where there are no obstacles, a buddy line can be a useful safety aid, but beware of the line snagging and divers colliding like a pair of conkers on strings.
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This has caused such a flurry in Tess's world of education that her school has now banned sledging, along with conkers, marbles, yo-yos and the sack race at school sports.
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Collect interesting bits of natural objects, such as bark, leaves, conkers and acorns to label and display at home.
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If you want to have a go at growing your own oak and chestnut trees, collect good, big acorns and conkers now.
The Sun
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That's what my dreams showed - that underneath my standard teenage exterior I was conkers, stark staring.
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Apparently, this made the conker more malleable, allowing it to absorb the impact of my prize pickled nut.
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In my childhood we were allowed to play conkers, whip-and-top, hopscotch and even put jacket potatoes on the bonfires.
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Each player takes turns to swing their conker at the others.
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The single player game begins with Conker getting impossibly blitzed and stumbling out into a dark starry night.
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A headmaster has bought his pupils safety goggles in a bid to stop a council banning games of conkers.
