yard

Definition:
1. An area outside a building, usually with a hard surface and a surrounding wall.
2. An area of land used for a special purpose or business.
3. The enclosed land around a house or other building.
4. A tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings).
5. An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines.

Use 'yard' in a sentence:

• 1. Can you see two chicks in the yard?
• 2. Motorcyclists cut catty-cornered across his yard.
• 3. Grandma called me in from the yard.
• 4. The dark head of a seal bobbed up a few yards away.
• 5. Delivery men were rolling barrels across the yard.
• 6. Prices start at $13.95 a yard for printed cotton.
• 7. Let's play yo-yo in the yard.
• 8. The dog barks in the yard.
• 9. Pigs were grunting and squealing in the yard.
• 10. The rubbish blows into your yard.
• 11. She watched the kids playing in the yard.
• 12. He stopped a hundred yards short of the building.
• 13. I replied, hurrying out to the yard.
• 14. The incident took place about 500 yards from where he was standing.
• 15. Scotland Yard has/ have been called in.
• 16. We got home and went sledding on the small hill in our back yard.
• 17. A yellow yo-yo is in the yard.
• 18. She appears almost in every yard sale.
• 19. The grass in the yard was waist high.
• 20. His mother asked him to clean up the yard.
• 21. I came upon an irresistible item at a yard sale.
• 22. When Dan cooks dinner he always goes the whole nine yards, with three courses and a choice of dessert.
• 23. A bus broke into the yard of the house.
• 24. Do you want to play in the yard?
• 25. He slid into our yard.
• 26. The yard measures about 50 feet across.
• 27. Don't throw the slops in the yard.
• 28. He booted the ball 40 yards back up field.
• 29. The enemy opened fire at a range of only 20 yards.
• 30. Jean Nicole is a yard sale lover.
• 31. The yard was overgrown with weeds.
• 32. Our back yard is overlooked by several houses.
• 33. David built us a shed in the back yard.
• 34. The ground begins to rise some 20 yards away.
• 35. They keep chickens in the back yard.
• 36. I saw him standing in the yard.
• 37. The moon cast a bright light over the yard.
• 38. A high wall separated our back yard from the playing field.
• 39. The boys were knocking a ball around in the back yard.
• 40. The boys were kicking a ball around in the yard.
• 41. The children were playing in the yard at the front of the school.
• 42. The ball pitched a yard short.
• 43. The yard had been enclosed with iron railings.
• 44. We dug a deep pit in the yard.
• 45. The fish stayed 50 yards offshore, well out of range.
• 46. Which door leads to the yard?
• 47. Johnson carried the ball an average of 6 yards per rush.