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Example sentences for "back yard"

  • Folks bring all kinds of animals to my back yard, if sick or hurt.

  • Now an airport must occupy a vast lot of land, so cannot stand right in a City's shopping district; but finally a big tract was bought, and right in back of tiny Marian's back yard!

  • It was in Madagascar that I received a message from a dying man, confessing that, shaken by remorse, he had brought what was left of the plunder and buried it in Mrs. Handsomebody's back yard.

  • There was a click, the door swung open, and Jimmie Dale, alias Larry the Bat, stepped outside into a back yard half a block away from the entrance to Chang Foo's.

  • By-an'-by" Brown had adopted the baby at Back Yard Bight of the Labrador.

  • But how to produce Long Bill Tweak from the mist into which he had vanished at Back Yard Bight of the Labrador seven years ago?

  • And thereafter he remembered the bleak and lonely reaches of Back Yard Bight as a stretch of coast where he had been considerably alarmed.

  • De kitchen and dining-room was in de back yard.

  • Ef we chillun never go, my ole Missus'ud teach us de catechism right dere in de back yard.

  • Us live in a log house close up in de back yard, and most all time I was in de big house waiting on de white folks.

  • It was in Madagascar that I received a message from a dying man, confessing that, shaken by remorse, he had brought what was left of the plunder and buried it in Mrs. Handsomebody's back yard!

  • Th' lead pipe is dug up in ye'er back yard be a rayporther who knew it was there because he helped ye bury it.

  • In my back yard also I have one that I bought in Oregon.

  • In my back yard there is a Brixnut filbert, which originated in Oregon.

  • This tree is 7 years old from a dormant bud on a 2-year-old black walnut seedling growing on my back yard.

  • If they do that, and your six-inch pipe comes out in a Chinaman's back yard, he will sue you for damages.

  • It was lighter, and I saw bushes and fences and outbuildings--I was in a back yard.

  • There have been storms ever since the beginning of the world, and I never heard of any of them taking a house into a person's back yard.

  • Sometimes he had 'em all git together in de back yard at de Big 'Ouse, and dey just filled up de yard.

  • Marse Thomas had a big fine melonial (colonial) house on Prince Avenue wid slave quarters in de back yard of his 10-acre lot.

  • Yes, my dear, I was born in Marse John's back yard.

  • Perhaps, since the subject of how you got into my back yard seems to be a delicate one, you will tell me why you got there.

  • May I ask how you found your way into my back yard?

  • Once more I ask, how did you find your way into my back yard?

  • The young man retreated precipitately, and hid in a back yard.

  • She used to set by ’de pump in ’de back yard, evenings, and smoke and smoke.

  • Before the War their parents and grandparents had been slaves, little dreaming that their descendants would ever be invited along with the children of the aristocratic whites to play in the President's "back yard"!

  • Every child knew that in all the city of Washington there was not so wonderful a "back yard" as that which belonged to the White House.

  • You may come right up to my house and play in my back yard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "back yard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back again; back before; back door; back from; back here; back home; back pressure; back street; back yard; backed chairs; backed gull; backed shrike; backed thrush; backward glance; civil life; faith only; good swimmer; great fear; grew weary; placed myself; publick affairs; second line; sinister smile; social institutions; thing about; whole story