back yard
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“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
“My brothers and I would jump in the back yard - it was our playground,” says Johanna.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
The fire was crawling up the back yard and the house was filled with smoke.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025
Adani Group has bid for giant contracts in India’s back yard.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2024
Instead, I played alone in the back yard, bouncing a rubber ball off the fence, drawing figures in the soft clay with an old knife, or reading what books I found about the house.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
