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How to use playmate in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Playmate means a companion for someone (especially a child) to play with. Example: “His sister, his dearest and only playmate, is a tomboy at heart.”

Examples of playmate by meaning

nounA companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.

  • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN

More sentences with playmate

  • His sister, his dearest and only playmate, is a tomboy at heart.From the entry tomboy
  • Worse, they are often not too sure what their absent playmates want them to be feeling.2009, Wesley L. Ford, How to Pick a Lover: For Women Who Want to Win at Love, page 176. From the entry long-distance
  • I remembered snowfights with playmates, the days filled with simple pleasures of youth.2005, E. Y. Goren and Lintao, Leonard Moss, E. Y. Goren, China Was Paradise! China Was Hell!: The Escapade of a Lifetime. From the entry snowfight
  • I remember the tales of children enticed to the floor of the sea by mermaids and fishboys in search of playmates.2014, Eleanor Swanson, “Exiles and Expatriates”, in Exiles and Expatriates: Stories, Hollywood, Calif.: Hollywood Books International…. From the entry fishboy
  • His young playmate had mentioned the Club had lost its only horse-hung top and the members were unhappy about that.2010, Bob Archman, Clydesdale Goes to Washington. From the entry horse-hung
  • Nice,docile, healthy and clean diaperboy seeks same diapergirl playmate.1996 December 3, [redacted], “South Jersey DiaperBoy Seeks DiaperGirl”, in alt.sex.fetish.diapers (Usenet). From the entry diapergirl
  • I remember being insulted as a child, being called a Xueta fool by playmates, and once someone spit in my face.1976, Kenneth Moore, Those of the street: the Catholic-Jews of Mallorca. From the entry Xueta
  • After eight months the musical 3-year-olds were expert puzzlemasters, scoring 80 percent higher than their playmates did in spatial intelligence -- the ability to visualize the world accurately.1996 February 18, “Why Do Schools Flunk Biology?”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry puzzlemaster
  • Because he often "dwelt in a world of terrors," he was susceptible to the tricks and tauntings of his playmates, who took advantage of his fears.1992, Rodney D. Olsen, Dancing in Chains: The Youth of William Dean Howells, page 8. From the entry taunting

Meaning of playmate

  1. noun A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
  2. noun A person's lover.

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Questions about playmate in a sentence

How do you use playmate in a sentence?
Playmate is used as a noun. For example: “His sister, his dearest and only playmate, is a tomboy at heart.”
What is a short sentence with playmate?
“Nice,docile, healthy and clean diaperboy seeks same diapergirl playmate.”
What does playmate mean?
Playmate means a companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playmate (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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