bleachers
Example Sentences
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In a place where history looks down from the wooden bleachers, these four will attempt to make their own by becoming the first GB men's rink in 102 years to win Olympic gold.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
From a distance, to those in the finish-line bleachers watching below, it looks terrifying.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
For the architects, the descending bleachers constitute a “reverse stoop,” another monumentalized form, this time of the brownstone stoops that are the front-row seats to Harlem’s street life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
“So electric, dancing on the bleachers in left-center field … I’m hoping everybody starts dancing to that song when Roki comes to pitch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025
The crowd goes crazy—standing on the bleachers, clapping, whistling, and tossing peanuts onto the track.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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