Example sentences for: backyard

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

  • A Marxist, he can't suppress his sympathy for those who look for meaning in the material world, in backyard barbecues and cars and fax machines.

  • So that none of you play because of a lack of alternatives, here are actual questions found by looking for "News Quiz" through various search engines, along with comments pointing out how much better things are right in your own backyard.

  • "We want to be able to land in grandma's backyard at night, in thick fog, without hitting the clothesline," says Jack Allison, an engineer on the project.

  • It seems disloyal, even a sign of self-loathing, for this president's campaign strategy to work overtime to gain the admiration and respect of the center while ignoring his own backyard.

  • Michael Pollan, the writer and magazine editor, writes in A Place of My Own about how he had become so disconnected with the physical world that he finally decided to hammer together a writing hut in his backyard, a desperate attempt to make contact with real objects.


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