courtyard

Example Sentences

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When Cathy first meets Edgar and Isabella, she climbs the wall of their estate and spies on the two having tea in a courtyard, where Isabella is extolling Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

From Salon

He could hear Glory call out after him, but he kept running beyond the courtyard.

From Literature

"We don't have the means to pay for her studies," she explained from their home's back courtyard, where young children capered about and two rams watched from an enclosure.

From Barron's

Often she was too weak to do anything but sit by the window and look longingly out at the maple tree in the courtyard.

From Literature

Fans could previously wed at courtyards and ballrooms at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel, at the Disneyland Hotel ballroom, in the Fantasyland Faire Garden and at Sleeping Beauty’s Castle Forecourt.

From Los Angeles Times