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.
