Sample Sentences forleft field (editor-reviewed)
left field as in: a left field idea
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That idea really came out of left field.left field = figuratively, from a strange place
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Your father is so far off in left field that he wouldn't recognize love if it stood up in his soup and sang. (source)left field = a place of strange beliefs or behaviors
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His call to me came out of left field. (source)left field = an idea that seems to come from nowhere or a very strange place
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That comes out of left field. (source)
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The center-field pawn slides toward second base, the bishop second baseman and the pawn shortstop drop back, and the left-field pawn runs up, then cuts toward center.† (source)
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Pafko racing toward the left-field corner.† (source)
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He says, "Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands."† (source)
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They studied news photographs of the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds taken just after the ball went in.† (source)
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The sound of the ash bat making contact with the ball reaches Cotter Martin in the left-field stands, where he sits in a bony-shouldered hunch.† (source)
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Saying, "Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the left-field stands and the place is going crazy."† (source)
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And it was smudged green near the Spalding trademark, it was still wearing a small green bruise where it had struck a pillar according to the history that came with it—flaked paint from a bolted column in the left-field stands embedded in the surface of the ball.† (source)
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He advertised for amateur film footage of the game and acquired a few minutes of crude action that showed a massive pulsing blur above the left-field wall shot by a man in the bleachers.† (source)
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Up on the second level the softball field empty and tar-hot, a heavy sweltry indolence, the dark surface flashing with broken glass, two or three men, he sees them now, standing out near the left-field fence, sort of mortally posed like figures in spaghetti westerns, lean, nameless, unshaved—he didn't think they were acquainted with the language of life expectancy.† (source)
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