How To Use Playmate In A Sentence
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Tom is my playmate in my childhood.
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But one quiet dog, without her playmate, is no trouble to anyone.
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We are told also by his sister -- and there is no incongruity in the two accounts -- that he early displayed a taste for 'preheminence and would preside over his playmates as their master and they his hired servants.'
The Rowley Poems
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He consoled himself that Emmanuel looked like a nice boy, who could be a good playmate for his daughter.
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My wife and I were especially fond of animals. Pluto was our favorite pet and playmate.
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Plus he is an active child who loves the outdoors and he is an only child with no children his age living nearby so a dog could be a wonderful playmate and friend.
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Today was a very BAD day for my little dawg as we set up a 'playdate' at a shelter in Waterloo in hopes of finding him a playmate.
Undefined
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If Clare ever sassed her mother or struck a playmate, the fact was not admissible.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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So I finally had a playmate, and a best friend.
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“Liza could brag about her experience with fire, too—how she and her sister had escaped with their baby-sitter through a third-floor window, but a playmate had hidden in a closet and died.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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He waved to them and they waved back, but they didn't know they were waving to their old playmate Marmaduke, he was so mixed up with all the children of the woman who lived on the canalboat that looked just like a shoe.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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The one thing we are incapable of learning by imitating our friends and peers and playmates is the life trajectory that has been prepared for us.
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During the study, each of the 121 girls was taken into a room with a "playmate" -- a trained research associate in her 20s who had experience working with children.
Signs of the Times
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My wife and I were especially fond of animals. Pluto was our favorite pet and playmate.
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Children identified by teachers as unpopular were likely to be overtly exposed to aversive social environments, either because they clearly had few friends and playmates or because peers were actively mean or hostile toward them.
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They asked for Abel as a playmate and companion to begin with and Mr Davis was pleased to oblige.
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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
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By Day 3, I was wishing we'd gone on holiday with friends or that at least the children would find some playmates.
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By the mid-1520s Wyatt was one of Henry's "Esquires of the Body" – part servant, part playmate, part bodyguard – and a keen participant in the Henrician craze for chivalric games and tourneys, as well as the endless round of amorous banter and titillation which went under the guise of "courtly love".
The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
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They'll have plenty of playmates, based on the rate at which our friends are having kids.
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It is as if the little boy had been taught to believe that by never saying the word mumps, he could save his playmate from tumefying glands.
Nonsenseorship
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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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Rather like the poet's child, who though "Nature's playmate" yet "[m] ars" all its sounds "with his imitative lisp" (92-97) ,18 the speaker and his friends mar the bird's inimitable singing, and in fact seem to be drawn together night after night by what the nocturnal scene precisely does not provide them: by what their language of poetic archaisms, onomatopoeias, and other suspect figures of speech cannot reproduce
'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
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I had to resort to clouting her with my underwater flashgun; she looked at me reproachfully with her enormous eyes and went off in search of more receptive playmates!
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Again, his playmate is a guest and should be treated as such.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
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Her mother was a woman of ill-repute: an ex-playmate, Ford model and all round good-time girl with a string of groupie relationships to her name.
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Brian had run to Dale with questions, but George had been his playmate.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Whereas, if we realize that each of those casualties or fatalities is a husband or a brother or a wife or a mother or a cousin or a playmate or a lover, it becomes much more difficult to overlook them - much more difficult to pretend that pain or loss feels differently if you're living in the Middle East.
A Conversation with Meg Mullins
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He was my playmate in childhood.
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Whenever I go to parties with my parents, they always try to set me up with their friends' son - my childhood playmate.
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But her main role would be as Hirschfeld's muse and playmate, his elfin inamorata, the one editor to whom he paid devoted attention.
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If Clare ever sassed her mother or struck a playmate, the fact was not admissible.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Stacy is running for the presidency and needless to say his wife and daughters don't know about his little playmate.
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`I hope you don't think I'm casting aspersions, but you've invited some extremely undesirable playmates along tonight.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Some among the sixteen were also neighbors, including Forrestal and Lovett, whose wives were friends and whose children were playmates.
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As children acquire the pidgin, they use it with playmates and other children in their peer group.
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An excellent companion, schipperkes are ideal playmates for children and keen watchdogs for the family home.
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Playmate began to poke and prod me with a singletree forefinger.
Angry Lead Skies
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When I was younger, I had a lot of friends, but they weren't real friends, they were just playmates.
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How would you like to have a robot playmate?
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She had served the Queen, as an attendant, a playmate, and a confidante literally since infancy, but did not resent it.
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Only six per cent of children thought their fathers were their ideal playmates.
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Infants bump and jostle with playmates all day.
Times, Sunday Times
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This can include grandparents, babysitters, relatives, family friends and playmates.
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Raf was a great playmate to have around and could be serious when the occasion arose.
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If Clare ever sassed her mother or struck a playmate, the fact was not admissible.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Perhaps by analogy with the compounds ‘schoolmate,’ ‘messmate,’ ‘playmate’, Edmund is treating the nominalised adjective as a compound noun.
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It is as if the little boy had been taught to believe that by never saying the word mumps, he could save his playmate from tumefying glands.
Nonsenseorship
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A three-year-old can imitate adults and playmates, play make-believe with dolls and use pronouns or plural words.
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She found Hyacinth, placid and biddable, an agreeable playmate and Mada Joyce a fine source of entertainment.
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We well recollect one fine brindled fellow, called 'Nero,' who, during his kittenhood, 'purred' the following epistle to a little girl who had been his playmate: --
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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Tadpole will love this angel baby – a built-in playmate for life.
Twins
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I loved Jo: playmate in psychic realities, friend, fellow therapist, mentor and so much more.
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It was not surprising that Ackroyd sought the company of this charming playmate.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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He consoled himself that Emmanuel looked like a nice boy, who could be a good playmate for his daughter.
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As children acquire the pidgin, they use it with playmates and other children in their peer group.
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I only pray that my fragile and beloved son—the cousinly playmate of your youth—may now know the peace he could never find here on earth.
"The Game Is Rigged" (A 2nd Letter From Uncle Bernie)
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Each of these 121 girls was taken into a room with a "playmate" -- a trained research associate in her 20s who had experience working with children.
Undefined
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Danny, the narrator, his friend Fred and two next door playmates, Nancy and Janet find adventure and exuberance through the days of one particular summer.
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Eusen felt sad to be the causer of such hate in Kahienra, a child playmate, an old friend.
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His chief playmate was his dog.
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The lyrics tell a bitter - sweet story of the dragon Puffhis playmate Paper, a little boy.
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When treated well, dogs can be loyal companions, good-natured playmates for children and steadfast protectors of home and hearth.
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A three-year-old can imitate adults and playmates, play make-believe with dolls and use pronouns or plural words.
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After the meal the man entertained himself in various ways with his playmate.
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They became good friends and playmates after Johnny asked other people about Christabelle.
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It wasn't all bad, but I think there were long periods without friends and playmates, or someone to break the internal thought processes.
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Playmate, friend and confidant, his alien chum is a compensation for the lonely hurt of an absent father and a shrill mother failing to cope with life as a single parent.
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He was almost exactly nine months older than Kirstle, which made him an ideal playmate.
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Penny now had playmates near at hand and there was always someone for me to talk to.
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Southern slaveholders often pointed to their affection for their individual "mammies" and the supposedly deep ties they formed with their enslaved playmates (of the same sex, of course) on the plantation.
AmericanHeritage.com
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But a little red-haired playmate with whom I became intimate used to take me off with her into the fields, where, sitting, on the edge of a disused cartway fringed with pussy-clover, she poured into my ears the most remarkable narratives of acquaintances she had made with people who lived under the ground close by us, in my father's orchard.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
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Martha was his slave, and lay in wait for him at all hours with gingerbread-men and "cooky" - cows; while the two girls were nurses, playmates, and teachers by turns.
Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls
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NeNe Leakes was another loud mouth bully who picked fights with pop legend Dionne Warwick (maybe warranted), Michael's sis and singer LaToya Jackson (calling her "Casper the Ghost"), 2009 Playmate of the Year Holly Dworacyk (calling her a kiss ass), and talk show host Starr Jones (calling her manipulative).
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