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

Then the ufo landed in my back yard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

In contrast to the danse macabre sequences at the deathbed, Jill overhears the “celebratory sound” of a neighbor’s back yard evening wedding by torchlight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

It helped having a pole-vault pit in the back yard of their home in Louisiana, where Duplantis grew up alongside his two brothers and younger sister Johanna, who is also a professional pole vaulter.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 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