barnyard

Children ages 4 to 8 will think they know what’s coming from the placid, old-timey barnyard setting, where the horse says “neigh” and the cow says “moo.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

I learned the many shades of stink — from barnyard funk to gym sock to overripe fruit — and how to spot the difference.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2025

While he speaks to me from his home in Sierra Leone, a rooster crows in the background, punctuating his sentences like a barnyard hype man.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2025

Trouble and the rest of the herd spent their days roaming three canyons and being tended to by staff in the animal barnyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Father and I ran out into the barnyard and watched him go.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Montreal, with its own private atmosphere of celebration and voluptuous sorrow, standing as it does alongside the snowbound barnyards of Vermont, the silent forests of Maine.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018

These reused industrial spaces transformed into throwback barnyards with old farm animals, right in the urban center, seem somehow uniquely Dutch to me, although I know that there are petting zoos in other global cities.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2017

For example, when Bouckaert wanted “funky” aromas, such as the smell of barnyards or horse blankets, but without the usual accompanying fruity notes, he tried four of the lab’s strains that showed some promise.

From Nature ● Jul. 25, 2016

Thousands of basketball-obsessed kids, in schoolyards and backyards and barnyards around the country, may be trying a new kind of shot come Tuesday morning.

From Time ● Apr. 8, 2014

When the fields yielded little game, they worked the barnyards and farm gardens.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George