back yard
Example Sentences
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She found that locals, especially immigrants who came here in the 1980s, look on the place as a back yard .
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
“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
Those hours practising in the back yard soon brought results.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Gaga's back yard in Malibu had previously played host to the wedding of her close friend, Sonja Durham, shortly before she died of cancer in 2017.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
All they had in the world was the nerve to stand in a back yard with cap in hand and sing loudly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
