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Example sentences for "this game"

  • CAT A small block of wood pointed at both ends is used in this game.

  • PASS IT This game may be played on a lawn.

  • CALL BALL In this game a rubber ball is used.

  • RED LINE In this game, also called Red Lion, the goal must be a straight line, such as the crack in a sidewalk or the edge of a road.

  • No explanation is given of the name of this game.

  • It appears by the analysis that all the incidents of the Hants version of this game occur in one or other of the versions, and these incidents therefore may probably be typical of the game.

  • The rudeness of the dialogue seems to be remarkably noticeable in this game.

  • Two important suggestions occur as to this game.

  • The law of falling bodies may be well illustrated by this game.

  • In this game, one boy personates the Stag, and with his hands closed together, starts from his bounds after the other players.

  • This game is played by throwing a marble against the wall, which rebounds to a distance.

  • This game is something similar to another very good game called "Warning," which may be played by any number of players.

  • Illustration] This is an entirely new game, and consists of the Sun in the centre, which may be represented by a bullet, because the sun is the most ponderous body of the system, and will in this game be required to move slowly.

  • Buckhart was blustering, but bluster did not amount to anything in this game.

  • We'll never have another chance to tie the score in this game!

  • I did what I could, but to no one individual belongs the glory of this game.

  • So universal is this game in Rome, that the very beggars play away their earnings at it.

  • After the excitement and stir of this game, which only the young and athletic can play well, cricket seems a very dull affair.

  • D'you think I'm entering on this game wildly?

  • I was reminded that two could play at this game by a bullet which sang past my face and buried itself in the woodwork behind me.

  • There's been a certain amount of pawn-taking in this game, and we've both got to pass it over if we're coming to business.

  • A slightly dramatic character may be observed in this game, which was obtained from Essex.

  • Browne has a curious allusion to this game in Britannia's Pastorals, i.

  • This game is probably a recent importation from England, where it is very well known.

  • This game, with verbal identity (save the title), was a few years since an amusement of well-bred girls in New York city.

  • In this game, one of the rows is composed of a boy, who represents the head of the house, and five or six girls who stand at his right and left.

  • In this game, as already mentioned, the players stand in a circle, boy and girl alternately choose a partner, while the friends stand around and chant the verses.

  • Give me one of your children, in this game.

  • I am poor, I am poor in this game, I am rich in this game.

  • In this game, the one side is taken by a girl who looks after a number of children, the other by a girl who is designated as Little Dog, and who stands apart.

  • This game is played with a target-post, more or less ornamental, as the skill and taste of the maker may decree, and a number of light rings or small hoops, ranging from five to ten inches in diameter.

  • This game of checkers is a scientific one and is governed entirely by calculation.

  • This game—which is sometimes called Birds, Beasts, and Fishes—is instructive as well as interesting to children who have some slight knowledge of natural history.

  • This game is played on a figure similar to the above, made on an ordinary slate.

  • This game looks so very simple, that any boy is certain he can do it at one thrust, and is only made aware of its difficulties after several unsuccessful attempts.

  • It is worthy of mention that it was at this game, on which many undergraduate hopes were centered, that the custom of singing "The Yellow and the Blue" in defeat as well as in victory was inaugurated.

  • This game came as a result of the formation of an Inter-collegiate Baseball League, composed of Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Racine, in which the Varsity easily won the championship.

  • The great deficiency of this game is, that the fox must inevitably be blocked if the geese are played by a skilful hand; for which reason, I am told, of late some players have added another fox; but this I have not seen.

  • This game, which is played with the bat and the ball, consists of single and double wicket.

  • The conqueror at this game is he who strikes the ball most times before it touches the stool.

  • I know that amongst men there are desperate skellums, so I soon picked up this game.

  • Stumm did not know any rules to this game, and I forgot to allow for that.

  • This game I saw played with four boys a side.

  • There was (as I have said) only one home in this game, from which the players sallied forth to taunt the orang tul, and which they were obliged to touch in order to save themselves when closely pursued.

  • Much agility is displayed in this game, which is thoroughly enjoyed by the players.

  • At this game a trick is called sapudi; to sweep the board is pukol tani; and the players who get no tricks at all are said to be sold up (kena kot).

  • This game appears to be identical with what is called main gayau in Selangor, in which, however, a fruit or seed called buah gandu is substituted for the cocoa-nut shell and propelled by the big toe of the player's foot.

  • This game needs a high wall, free from abutments, and under it a smooth, dry, paved ground.

  • In this game sometimes a good captain may win even when he has an inferior team.

  • This game may be played either in an open court, that is in a court with only one wall, against which the game is played, or in a closed court surrounded by four walls.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this game" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feet apart; this account; this art; this belief; this bill; this castle; this colony; this condition; this effect; this evening; this figure; this idea; this law; this little; this new; this picture; this play; this practice; this process; this remark; this society; this spot; this strange; this they; this thing; this voyage