back yard

Example Sentences

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She found that locals, especially immigrants who came here in the 1980s, look on the place as a back yard .

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Then the ufo landed in my back yard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Gaga's back yard in Malibu had previously played host to the wedding of her close friend, Sonja Durham, shortly before she died of cancer in 2017.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

She looked up the mountain beyond her back yard and saw flames erupt at the base of a power transmission line.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025

In this contraption she wheeled around the room, from bedside to dresser to the balcony that opened out the north side of her room or to die window that looked out on die back yard.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison