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Preacher Bamm is too busy throwing his daughter’s vanities out into the yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Less than a mile from the tracks, a “sale pending” sign sat in Dana Kyker’s yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The Scottish government has promised to directly award the yard new orders for four smaller ships, but ministers say they are still conducting "due diligence" on the plan.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Gatwood hoped to put in a new fence and was raking some rocks and dirt to make the yard smoother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

He brought whatever he killed, and cooked it over a fire in the school yard.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The Spartans’ new starter went 21 for 32 for 234 yards — including 74 yards in the fourth quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

They maintain lookout towers, water stations and strategic corridors of cleared land among the pines, typically 55 yards wide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The most memorable came from Mosley, who took off with his first-ever collegiate punt and ping-ponged his way down the field, refusing to go down until he gained 41 yards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

While Waymond Jordan and Miller did most of the damage on the ground, combining for 111 yards, redshirt freshman Riley Wormley was the first USC running back to score.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

We were moving so fast and the deer was moving so fast that within a second or two we were several yards past where it had happened and yet everything seemed suspended in slow motion.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

Upon the cattle being yarded, the most exciting operation is the capturing and securing of the young beasts requiring to be broken in to the yoke.

From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Robert B. Booth

I, too, had rest; but it was only the ignominious idleness of a young boat with a broken propeller yarded among honourably worn-out craft to await a foundering.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

The blacks followed closely, and the bird was soon yarded.

From Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

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

At the heavier work, the girl at yarding, the folder, knotter, and ticketer, all worked tandem, and if the girl at yarding loses her bonus, all the girls lose the bonus.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark