Sentences with conker
conk·er
C c - The children just love conkers, which is a game that many of them had never played before.
- He holds the world record for conkers by demolishing 306 in an hour, but has not yet won the Irish title.
- Baking a conker makes it more likely to shatter.
- Governors and staff imposed the ban on the traditional break-time game because of fears the conkers could cause an anaphylactic reaction in children with nut allergies.
- Each player takes turns to swing their conker at the others.
- All conkers and strings are supplied by the competition organisers.
- It's a beautiful thing, the leather rich brown and shiny as a conker and trimmed with brass.
- I picked up a shiny, fresh conker in the street as I walked around Canonbury and Highbury for a couple of hours.
- Picking the right conker is a big gamble, but usually as long as it's fresh and has a nice gloss it will be fine.
- ‘We take the conker out on the pub crawl and then before a match it gets passed around and we rub it rather hopefully,’ Dave continued.
- We have also had schools banning children from playing conkers and, recently, another which prohibited football unless a ‘softer’ ball was used.
- I can't think of anything less palatable than setting my alarm for 8.30 am and actually getting up when it goes off - it makes me feel like a conker being prized from its casing too soon.
- Competition in the ring was ferocious as fearless competitors risked their knuckles and aimed to split the conker at the end of a leather string held by their opponent.
- Back at the cottage and among wine, rakia and music we played the traditional game of cracking one another's Easter eggs together, something like the game of conkers in England.
- In other words a nationwide band of amateurs who watch the landscape for signs of seasonal change - the first cuckoo, the first frogspawn, the first conker, that sort of thing.
- In my childhood we were allowed to play conkers, whip-and-top, hopscotch and even put jacket potatoes on the bonfires.
- Traditional games such as skipping, marbles and conkers are disappearing from school yards, not because children are scared of skinning their knees, but because their teachers are scared of being sued.
- Where there are no obstacles, a buddy line can be a useful safety aid, but beware of the line snagging and divers colliding like a pair of conkers on strings.
- Did you opt for a few preliminary skirmishes to test out the ability of your conker to achieve the all important swing/force ratio, or did you immediately challenge the owner of the champion conker in the hope of immediate glory.
- Here, each competitor randomly selects a conker from a bag, rather than play with his own equipment.
- But when you show me children, it is easier for me to believe the horrors if I also see them playing Knock Down Ginger, or conkers, or whatever.
- These ranged from the traditional knockabout with a conker on a string, to a conkernut shy, a play on the coconut version, and wingseed throwing.