Example sentences for: backyard

How can you use “backyard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Meanwhile, a previously apolitical 33-year-old housewife named Maggie Ray began convening local activists, black and white, pro- and anti-busing, to work out an alternative solution--and also endeared herself to the judge at a backyard barbecue.

  • "America, with its Wilsonian moral impulses, could not be held indefinitely in an alliance that sat back, fat and happy, while atrocities were being committed on a large scale in Europe's backyard," it said.

  • You can have a park in your backyard (as I do) and still make it to work in 15 minutes (if you keep a sharp eye out for the potholes).

  • ’ In addition to the author's examples of lease, landlord, tenant , and surrender , I would submit escrow, holograph, joint tenancy, tenancy in common, precatory subrogation (none of which is mentioned in the book), and the invaluable per stirpes , all terms of art far more precise than any ready equivalent in backyard English.

  • Here's one example from my backyard: Shortly after taking office, the Giuliani administration in New York began stonewalling the most routine media requests for information.


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