barnyard
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Reuters reports that they’re resorting to barnyard language to attack Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
One article said, “A pop-up barnyard would be less inappropriate for the neighborhood.”
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 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
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
Most of the narrators had joined the circle around George, as had a few of the barnyard animals, who were supposed to be clucking and mooing onstage.
From "George" by Alex Gino
At any given moment, there are as many as 12,500 Duroc hogs snorting around the barnyards of Imani Farms, a pig farm in southwestern Ontario.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
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
Vocabulary lists containing barnyard
