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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bleachers
noun
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▪ Across the bleachers, the Oregon band puts down its instruments and starts dancing in the aisles.
▪ After practice I watch him walk painfully over to the bleachers, wrap up his knee and hobble out.
▪ As we did, I looked out in the bleachers, which were totally empty.
▪ Karen sits in the bleachers watching the team go through the familiar drills.
▪ Margarett did not mind Sandy pushing the furniture into rows or constructing bleachers from boards and pails.
▪ The first man the left-hander faced, pinch-hitter Eric Davis, homered into the bleachers in left.
▪ They sang songs and danced in the temporary bleachers.
▪ We spent an hour each day in the cockpit and three or four hours in the bleachers watching our classmates.
Wiktionary
bleachers

n. 1 (context US usually in the plural English) Seating, usually tiered, exposed to the elements, especially the sun, for spectators in outdoor venues. 2 (plural of bleacher English)

WordNet
bleachers

n. an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached

Wikipedia
Bleachers (novel)

Bleachers was published on June 22, 2004. The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday and the paperback edition by Dell. The book focuses on whether or not the famous Eddie Rake, former coach of the Messina High School football team, was loved or hated by his former players.

Bleachers (band)

Bleachers is an American indie pop act based in New York City formed by Jack Antonoff, of bands Steel Train and Fun. Bleachers' pop music was heavily influenced by the 1980s and the high school-based films of John Hughes while still using modern production techniques. Their first single, " I Wanna Get Better", was released February 18, 2014.

Bleachers (disambiguation)

Bleachers are raised, tiered rows of benches.

Bleachers may also refer to:

  • Bleachers (band), an American indie pop band started by Jack Antonoff
  • Bleachers (novel), a novel by John Grisham
  • Bleach wash jeans, worn as part of early 1980s skinhead and punk fashion

Usage examples of "bleachers".

In couples and small groups, people walked away from their vehicles and headed for the brightly lighted bleachers.

Even as we walked past the front of the bleachers, dozens of Grandville locals were certain to be watching us.

She seemed to be studying the audience in the bleachers across from ours.

We both fell forward, grappling with each other, colliding with a few people below us, knocking them off their feet before we crashed down on the slick, wet bleachers.

Under my back, I felt the vibrations of all the shoes and boots and san dais and bare feet pounding their way down the bleachers.

I managed to plant one foot on the bottom row of the bleachers and spring off.

When we rounded the end of the bleachers, I had a clear view of Janks Field.

Through the bars on the other side, I saw a vague shape squirming on the ground in front of the bleachers.

The hearse remained motionless behind the other bleachers, shining its headlights at us.

I was still selling tickets when the cheers and whistles started inside and the whooping and stomping on those old wood bleachers drew even more people.

We built more bleachers, moved her into the biggest top we had, eleven hundred capacity, and it was always jammed.

He'd been reading books on Oriental philosophy and was spouting it solemnly over the lip of the tank one day when a pale woman on the bleachers stood up and asked him whether her fifteen-year-old son, who had run away months before, was alive or dead.

They paid their price and sat numbly in clumps on the bleachers waiting as long as it took for his show to begin.

He did it right there in front of Arty's tank with seven or eight hundred people in the bleachers watching.

He wore blue or brown leather for his workaday stumps, but he got a pair made of iridescent green satin, embroidered with silver vines, for wearing in the control booth at the top of the bleachers where he worked the sound-and-light board for Arty's show.