barnyard

Reuters reports that they’re resorting to barnyard language to attack Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

I learned the many shades of stink — from barnyard funk to gym sock to overripe fruit — and how to spot the difference.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2025

While he speaks to me from his home in Sierra Leone, a rooster crows in the background, punctuating his sentences like a barnyard hype man.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2025

Speaking from the stage at a 1995 concert in Memphis, Jackson described her music as “anywhere from a barnyard disaster to classical.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Laura had been watching for him, and she ran out to the wagon as soon as it stopped by the barnyard.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

But there is real risk in our own backyards — and barnyards.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

At any given moment, there are as many as 12,500 Duroc hogs snorting around the barnyards of Imani Farms, a pig farm in southwestern Ontario.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

For example, when Bouckaert wanted “funky” aromas, such as the smell of barnyards or horse blankets, but without the usual accompanying fruity notes, he tried four of the lab’s strains that showed some promise.

From Nature ● Jul. 25, 2016

Thousands of basketball-obsessed kids, in schoolyards and backyards and barnyards around the country, may be trying a new kind of shot come Tuesday morning.

From Time ● Apr. 8, 2014

When the fields yielded little game, they worked the barnyards and farm gardens.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George