HOPSCOTCH in a Sentence

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Swarms of children, black and white, ran yelling about the newly green lawn, playing hopscotch and tag and boasting how much they were going ...

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 Meanings and Examples of HOPSCOTCH
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hopscotch
 n.  a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
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1  Swarms of children, black and white, ran yelling about the newly green lawn, playing hopscotch and tag and boasting how much they were going to eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
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