Word:

playgoer

Number of occurrences: 14 Rank: 1,191,948 Frequency class: 23

Baseform of: playgoers

Examples

  • In fairness, the theater experience was interrupted midway through the first act, when a playgoer became violently ill and had to exit in an aromatic cloud. (www.bayweekly.com, collected on 26/11/2016)
  • Lovers of C.S. Lewis’s work may find a hidden gem in this production, but for the average playgoer the pace could feel a little slow. (www.martlet.ca, collected on 20/11/2016)
  • If the playgoer is intended to think of George and Martha Washington, does Albee mean the whole of the gloomy play to be a dissection of the American culture? (www.presstelegram.com, collected on 22/11/2016)
  • On Nov. 8, Michael Anderegg, professor emeritus at the University of North Dakota, will discuss Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong interest — as reader, writer, and playgoer — in the plays of William Shakespeare. (www.metnews.com, collected on 12/11/2016)
  • She was also a skilled pianist, ardent playgoer, and omnivorous reader. (www.putnamtowncrier.com, collected on 22/11/2016)
  • Granted, Shakespeare is not for the easily discouraged, and perhaps part of the triumph of playgoer is the self-affirmation that accompanies catching some of the bard’s quick wit. (www.paisano-online.com, collected on 05/11/2016)
  • Writer Bob Melamud, a playgoer for pleasure, is an engineer by trade and disposition and thus loves to look at the how-to of things. (www.bayweekly.com, collected on 26/11/2016)
  • It is this desire, to delight today’s 21st-century greedy playgoer, that gets Gelb crackling. (www.brooklynrail.org, collected on 02/11/2016)
  • The playgoer doesn’t relish it. (www.brooklynrail.org, collected on 02/11/2016)
  • Plus: Groundhog Day at the Old Vic will be a hit – but it only succeeds as spectacle, not as a musical Southwark Playhouse, until 10 September ‘European premiere of classic American musical’ is a phrase that deeply alarms the experienced playgoer. (www.spectator.co.uk, collected on 23/11/2016)

Words occurring in the Same Sentence

experienced (26), American (16), is (7.4), of (6.9)
a (129), experienced (93)

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