It is, therefore, not a question whether children of school ages should be taught the important facts of sex, but whether parents and trained teachers rather than playmates and other unreliable persons should be the instructors.
Our contemplation came to nothing, being every moment disturbed by a visit to the potatoes in the stew pots, a quarrel among playmates about a marble, the grunting invasion of the porkers or the arrival of the chicks.
A second, at the age when most of us delight in tops and marbles, leaves the company of his boisterous playmates and listens to the echo of celestial harps singing within him.
He never got angry and called His playmates hard and ugly names.
He was always kind and gentle; consequently all His acquaintances and fellow playmates liked Him, and the more they saw of Him the more they loved Him; for we are told “He grew in favor with God and man.
She had a sweet child-fancy that her playmates understood her language as she did theirs, and that birds, flowers, animals, and insects felt for her the same affection which she felt for them.
I slept, during my infancy, in the cradle with my little mistress, and afterwards in the room with her, and thus we grew up as playmates and companions until we reached our seventh year, when we both had scarlet fever.
There will be many playmates besides, too, and I will help you find them.
The Forest teemed with new playmatesfor him and Ivra.
Inwardly objurgating the spying Melinda, but relieved that his playmates hadn't broken their promise of secrecy, Mr. Hamlin laughed.
On one occasion Edwin saw one of his playmates bruised and trampled in this way.
It was hard when two of their little playmates came and called for them to come out.
Among my playmates I held a very unimportant position, being neither very popular nor unpopular.
She had a small foot, yet her old shoes were miles too large for me, and furthermore, always made me the butt of the jeers and jibes of my playmates in the street.
All the social feelings and sympathy of the swallow are for creatures as aerial and swift-winged as itself--its playmates in the wide fields of air.
For Billie and Teddy Jordon had been chums and playmates since they could remember, and Billie had always been sure that Teddy must be the very best looking boy in the world, not even excepting her brother Chet, of whom she was very fond.
Two of the little girls of the neighborhood had been shut up in their rooms one fine summer day as punishment for the infraction of some home regulation, whereupon a discussion among the free playmates arose as to the reason for punishment.
I pause and dream with keenest longing For the starlit magic night, For my noisy playmates thronging, And the slow moon's trailing light.
Our studying came to nothing, being every moment disturbed by a visit to the potatoes in the stew-pots, a quarrel among playmates about a marble, the grunting invasion of the little Pigs or the arrival of the Chicks.
I am sorry I have no playmates but the ducklings to admire it.
We are not all equally strong, and it is no discredit to a boy that he cannot run as far or lift as much as some of his playmates or companions.
Then, also, Hal Bingham arrived, and the Bobbsey twins took great delight in showing their former playmates about Lakeport.
But the full explanation came only the other day, in September, when one of his playmates was arrested for throwing him down and confessed to doing it.
The little playmates lay in the churchyard, and they were full of oaths, and drink, and riot, and remorses; but no note was changed in this immortal song.
The hall, as they entered its dim coolness, was deserted, and though Peace looked inquiringly about her for her small playmates who usually rushed eagerly to meet her, not one was in sight.
Deacon Adams had always been on excellent terms with the Indians, and his little daughter had found her earliest playmatesamong their children.
After doing his errand, however, as he was returning by the house where two of his friends and playmates lived, he thought he could not resist the temptation just to call a moment to see them.
But when all her playmates were around her, with the apples in their hands, and urging her to eat, telling her that her mother never would know it, she wickedly yielded to their solicitation.
And when thou art tired of living at Takai, then thou and thy two playmates shall come over here to me and fill my house with the light of thy eyes.
Because," answered the Barred Plymouth Rock Hen, "you have enough room and enough playmates right here at home, and I know that you are safe and well here.
Did any of your playmatesover there go around with their mouths open?
But they came back that evening from the delightfully exciting task of hanging their fragrant gifts to find that friends and playmates had been equally mindful of them.
Beyond the two high board fences that bounded the Alley separating their yard from the Halford place, she knew her two small playmates were happy out in the sunshine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "playmates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
