FIELD in a Sentence

Learn FIELD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

399 example sentences for FIELD, such as:

1. The football field is enclosed by a wall.
2. Our field of vision is surprisingly wide.
3. The single tree in the field is prominent.
4. The couple moved outside her field of vision.
5. The field trip involved crossing a raging torrent.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIELD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
field
 n.  an area of open land
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  It made a small frightened cheep like a field mouse, and he wondered languidly if it were hurt.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  It was a secret he would never learn, for everyone from Ellen down to the stupidest field hand was in a tacit and kindly conspiracy to keep him believing that his word was law.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  If they showed no aptitude for any of these trades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Beside him Honey Wilkes, so called because she indiscriminately addressed everyone from her father to the field hands by that endearment, fidgeted and giggled as she called greetings to the arriving guests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  He stumped rapidly to the group, waving his cane and shouting and, because he could not hear the voices about him, he soon had undisputed possession of the field.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  The unfortunate boy had not only been cheated of the love he thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honor and glory on the field of battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  And now, having worked like a field hand, she had to retire decorously when the fun was just beginning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Her thoughts and activities were the same as they had been in the old days, but the field of her activities had widened immensely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  It opened up an entirely new field of thought and one that was horrifying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  The generals in the field were crying out for fresh troops, and there were fewer and fewer fresh troops to be had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  The place where the Yankees were concentrating was only a few miles southeast of the battle field of Chickamauga.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  There had been fighting in Tennessee for three years and people were accustomed to the thought of that state as a far-away battle field, almost as far away as Virginia or the Mississippi River.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (189 in 13 pages)
16  The apple tree leaned to the field, dropping its flowers on the grass.
17  The single tree in the field is prominent.
18  The field trip involved crossing a raging torrent.
19  A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
20  Our field of vision is limited by that tall building.
21  The couple moved outside her field of vision.
22  Only when our eyes have been washed by tears, can we have a broader field of vision.
23  Our field of vision is surprisingly wide.
24  As the cars overtake you, they are temporarily outside your field of vision.
25  With increased power, the field of vision of the binoculars becomes smaller.
26  Be careful when you walk in this field; there are lots of rocks cropping up.
27  The football field is enclosed by a wall.
28  He has won wide recognition in the field of tropical medicine.
29  I spoke to an aid worker who had recently returned from the field.
30  The party intends to field / put up a candidate in the next general election.