How To Use Hopscotch In A Sentence
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And even when the songs hopscotched over musical logic, they scanned, because - analysis fails here - they sounded so gorgeous.
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The joys were in simple games - hopscotch, hide-and-go-seek, tag, etc.
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The story hopscotched over to Bernard Weinraub, who covers Hollywood for The New York Times.
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If it's raining lightly, go out for a game of mud-puddle hopscotch.
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Rick Perry hopscotched across Texas on Wednesday to sign ceremonial copies of a new workers' compensation bill.
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Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
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The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language.
Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
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It looks like the playing field has evolved into a mine field, and the big boys encourage the new kids to play hopscotch there.
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at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
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Developments are hopscotching out to the cheapest land.
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They need to ride their bikes and play hopscotch or just sit around with a few buddies playing video games or watching movies.
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Tales were told of playing hopscotch, tig and gerallies, of home births, courting and marriages.
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A simple box of sidewalk chalk will bring out your child's inner artist and may also be used to draw those old-fashioned games like hopscotch, four-square and Tic Tac Toe.
Darell Hammond: Back to Basics for the Holidays
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For example, hard and even surfaces allow for children to play marbles or hopscotch, or to practice riding a scooter.
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Now my mother hopscotches between acceptance and warnings of eternal damnation.
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As a youngster I would run screaming if any of my playmates were sick after eating too much ice-cream before a particularly vigorous game of hopscotch.
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Becky was on her way to watch the kids play Jacks and Hopscotch by the tennis courts, when she spotted the little creature hopping near a trash can in the garden trail rest area.
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He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals.
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So plans were formed and we arranged the elaborate car-hopscotch required to ensure that no-one would drive home drunk.
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She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons.
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In one of the vast, anonymous, carpeted, windowless suites that pepper every large hotel in the USA, about fifty people from the same company were engaged in collective hopscotch, frisbee and kickball.
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It's about hope,’ he said testily this weekend as he hopscotched from the heartland to Dixie to California in pursuit of caucus votes and contributions.
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In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation.
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He hopscotched through different industries - accounting, consulting, and airlines - before landing in fast food.
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Artist Michael Garfield referred to it as "playing hopscotch across illusory divides in the intertidal zone between technology and spirituality, science and art, self and other, individual and collective.
Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity
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After hopscotching from event to event in Nashua I found a T-Mobile hotspot at a Borders Books in town and jotted down the events in the post below.
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Children enjoy playing games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek.
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Since when is chalking hopscotch on the pavement illegal?
The Sun
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So much of one's life is graphed out with determining patterns, and one can't really treat the squares like hopscotch.
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It starts strongly with a potentially vicious game of hopscotch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
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There have been several reports of children being threatened with legal action for doing t hings like drawing hopscotch grids in the street.
House Points: Joan Ruddock, Nigel Griffiths and the Met's Ironic Squad
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In summer we played shop in back yards or gardens, or hopscotch on the pavements.
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Children enjoy playing games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek.
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The road is covered in chalk drawings: hopscotch and football pitches, pictograms of dolls and soldiers, houses, cars ships.
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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You probably know more Yiddish than you think, thanks to "Seinfeld," Heeb magazine and Jewish screenwriters, who made words such as shlep, klutz, nosh, shlimazel (remember the "Laverne and Shirley" hopscotch theme song?) and shmooze household lingo.
Articles
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Games from our Parents' Childhood: Hopscotch, Freeze, Beanbag toss, Paper Airplanes ...... Held in the Games Area outside Family Box, share with your children the games that once brought us great joy!
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The Swiss adventurer hopes to fly his as yet unbuilt, unproven solar-powered plane around the globe in stages, hopscotching the globe using designated landing sites.
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Not even the chickadees chattering and hopscotching in the shrubs at our yard's edge can break my mood.
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Still, he thought watching mummy play hopscotch was hilarious, so it wasn't a total disaster.
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Another crop of insurers chose to hopscotch past the Caribbean and locate here.
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Solid Gold Hits knowingly hopscotches from era to era.
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In fact, games like five stones are excellent for developing reflexes while a game like Paandi or hopscotch inculcates a sense of balance.
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In the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty she plays a gold-digger using pre-nuptial agreements to hopscotch her way to riches.
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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
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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But these diseases are also global: SARS hopscotched the world via transcontinental flights.
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They stood looking at each other until one boy stuck out his arms for balance and hopscotched in gaps between the stones from one side to another like a broken-field runner.
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But these diseases are also global: SARS hopscotched the world via transcontinental flights.
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In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation.
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Moore's Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine hopscotched across explanations for the American habit of violence without investigating any one of them in meaningful depth.
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Little kids play hopscotch on the floor tiles, babies swat at the fish in the aquarium in the entranceway, and all kinds of folks swarm about hoping for a taste of the old country.
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Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
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Children, half clothed in rags, play hopscotch next to a mysterious gray liquid that has gathered in stagnant puddles weeks after the last rainfall.
India: Toilets Are Scarce, And Highly Desirable
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There have been dancing games before, of course, but they were rudimentary hopscotch affairs where you had to step on the right footpad at the right time.
Why talk to a computer? Surely talking to a human is traumatic enough?
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The idea is to run around doing the sort of stuff you used to see in the playground - hopscotch, tag and leapfrog.
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Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.
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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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Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
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The playground is now a more pleasant and interesting place for the children with grid games, such as hopscotch, jigsaws, target games and three chessboards with draught pieces.
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The purpose of this event - which involved another 50 children - was to see if they would still play traditional street games like hopscotch in the absence of cars and traffic.
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Playing hopscotch, hide and seek, even a game of rounders was all in a day's fun for a thirteen year old in the good old days.
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At recess one day her teacher taught the class how to play hopscotch on the cement basketball court outside.
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The children squared off the sidewalk to play hopscotch.
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There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language.
Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
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The disease is not progressive, but it hopscotches around Hughes' life in a way that keeps squeezing all the drama out just as it's building to a crescendo.
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- Hopscotch might be "potsy" in Manhattan or "sky blue" in Chicago.
Undefined
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These include skipping rope, racing, swimming, playing catch, dodgeball, and hopscotch.
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During the interview, the former governor of Vermont appeared at ease handling questions that hopscotched across global trouble spots.
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The road is covered in chalk drawings: hopscotch and football pitches, pictograms of dolls and soldiers, houses, cars ships.
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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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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
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.
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Besides, even if they were allowed to muck in with the next-door neighbours' kids, how many 10-year-olds these days would opt for hopscotch over Playstation?
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As a little girl growing up in the Bronx up the street from the courthouse, my friends and I played both potsy and hopscotch.
No Uncertain Terms
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I stay away from caffeine, sugar, cold medicine, and fast food and my favorite game is hopscotch.
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You'll notice that since yesterday, the heliborne troops of the 101AB have moved far north of yesterday's position, hopscotching in their helicopters from one base to the next.
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Decades ago, children were always filled with immense pleasure when playing tag, marbles, jumping rubber bands or hopscotch.
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From improvised reality-television games at one end to traditional hopscotch at the other, the anarchic chaos of the playground turns out, on closer inspection, to be a seething but curiously ordered grid of self-devised distractions.
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Most children's and grown-ups' games are highly competitive, whether it is Monopoly, snap, snakes and ladders, chess or hopscotch.
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Twenty nine, my boyfriend suggests bullwhips, but I am all caught up with playing hopscotch.
Ll Book That Therapy Appointment Soon
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Play time will start to involve games with rules such as hopscotch, bat and ball games, and simple board games as your child reaches six and seven years.
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It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the ability to hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as easily as the rest of us change clothes.
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To me it seems very calculated to try to hopscotch from one car to the next to the next, so nobody would know what car you're in.
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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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She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons.
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All the girls were engaged in games of jump rope and hopscotch.
