back yard
Example Sentences
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Lalli bought his own generator and started throwing shows in his back yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
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 stood by herself in the dark back yard, breaking off pieces of bark from the oak tree with her fingernails.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
