back yard

Example Sentences

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Then the ufo landed in my back yard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

The back yard slowly filled with loved ones from Negrete’s various social circles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

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

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

He wiped his black hands on his leather breeches and stepped out into the sunlight of the tiny back yard.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes