back yard
Example Sentences
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“Auntie Dosie had to have three aspirins, but Auntie Hannah, who liked port, stood in the middle of the snowbound back yard, singing like a big-bosomed thrush.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The back yard slowly filled with loved ones from Negrete’s various social circles.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
“My brothers and I would jump in the back yard - it was our playground,” says Johanna.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
He ran outside to check on two towering pine trees in his back yard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025
He stood up and stepped down from the porch onto the desert—for his back yard, except for the shed where he kept his digging tools, teas the desert.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
