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
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
She looked up the mountain beyond her back yard and saw flames erupt at the base of a power transmission line.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025
To the left of the desk, along the bookcase wall, was a window that looked out onto the alleyway and back yard beyond.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
