backyard
Example Sentences
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Mom had little plastic pots of herbs growing in the sunny kitchen window, and now that it was getting warm, it was time to put them in the garden in the backyard.
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Taking a gamble, Jeremy left the sidewalk and began dodging through backyards.
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Outside, the entertaining spaces include a lush front yard and a vast backyard with a private horse trail.
From MarketWatch
His children "had a lifetime of going out into the backyard to watch the ISS fly over".
From Barron's
A couple of the places he’d lived in with his mom had had postage-stamp-sized backyards, but never one with a waterfall.
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