Example sentences for: farmyard

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

  • The first part of its name is in fact directly related to that of the cock , as the initial cuck - of its call corresponds to the farmyard bird's cluck.

  • Back on the main road, take the next road turning south, through stone gateposts and across a farmyard, to the largely unexcavated Torrellafuda, obscured by trees.

  • Several centuries ago, incestuous liaisons were for the aristocracy, now they're farmyard fun.

  • So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose"; a catfish "the size of a boar hog"; a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog"; a night as dark "as the inside of a cow"; an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.

  • Outside the farmyard, but still (usually) within farmland territory, the crow and rook are both named for their harsh call or caw , and though less common, the chough and the raven are similarly named.


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