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When bovine TB led to the loss of his entire herd, dairy farmer Mervyn Kelso struggled with the sadness of the empty fields and the silence of the milking yard.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

But before you know it, they’ve taken over your yard.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Loui Ridi keeps watch from his balcony on a pair of dusty camper vans parked a stone’s throw from his yard, bracing for the next attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

USC’s defense didn’t give up a single yard in the second quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

He knows that I know it, from the way that our eyes meet in that dark train yard.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

It was the final touch on his individual masterpiece—399 yards and three touchdowns—as he defeated the coach who brought him to Ole Miss in the first place, 32-24.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

After posting two interceptions to zero passing touchdowns through the first two weeks of the season, Iamaleava completed 19 of 31 passes for 276 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 55 more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

But he caught five passes for 74 yards in the Rams’ season-opening defeat by the San Francisco Giants in Australia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Inside a cool, dimly lighted trailer where the quiet is broken mostly by the crackle of radio traffic, Abrin Vasquez drives a 40-ton bulldozer hundreds of yards away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The afternoon sunlight was blocked by trees in the yards around the condos, so the air coming into the window was cool.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Often on horseback, he yarded and penned cattle.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Atik returned, Miyax told him he did not need to go to the mountains—that a large herd was yarded not far up the river.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

In the Maine woods it is not the practice to haul to landings until the tree crop is practically all down and yarded on the main roads.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

What is the condition of a stockman after he has brought up his mob and yarded it for the night?

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

I, too, had rest; but it was only the ignominious idleness of a young boat with a broken propeller yarded among honourably worn-out craft to await a foundering.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

The sharp fuss of grown-ups, issued from porches at the rowdy barefoot yarding of neighborhood kids, rises over the chatter of rocking chairs, to contend with manic squeals and out-of-breath laughter.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

Farther south, yarding may occur only during years when the weather is more severe.

From Time Magazine Archive

What triggers whitetails to move to winter yarding areas?

From Time Magazine Archive

For example, in northern Wisconsin, researchers have shown that individual does may remain on summer range during mild winters but will move to yarding areas when heavy snows and cold temperatures develop.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the yarding machines the girls stand under the frame holding the wooden arms that measure off the cloth back and forth.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark