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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

Volunteer Nathan Kehn readies a cat for transport after catching it in the lumber yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

We’re at the edge of his grandma’s yard now, and he stops.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

Against USC, though, the Scarlet Knights had little trouble moving up and down the field, piling up 460 yards along the way.

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

Maiava completed 20 of 32 passes for 277 yards and two touchdowns but missed several open receivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They had to haul water hundreds of yards from the river in wheelbarrows.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

She was clad in a tunic of satin, yarded with spangles of Egyptian gold, and on her head she had a silken kerchief, fringed with blue.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne

In two more trips, with his extra "cars" and with that glassy surface, he believed that every ounce of railroad material could be "yarded" at the Po-quette Carry.

From The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day

The deer yarded on Maxon; lynx-tracks circled our house and barn, and we sometimes heard old tassel-ears a-miauling on the Stacking Ridge.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

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

What triggers whitetails to move to winter yarding areas?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few places the old ground method of yarding with a bull block is still used.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp