What is "backyard"

Usage examples of "backyard".

Winter weekends, whole summers out in the woods, in empty lots, in our immense, dark backyard, examining the scat of rabbits, catching bizarre electrical arthropoda in jars, convinced, sensing firsthand the terrible expanse of the place.

As the new men ranked the cage wagons and tethered the uncaged animals in the backyard, Aleksandr Banat bustled about among them, issuing trivial and unnecessary orders, luxuriating in being now the crew chief of fully seventeen underlings.

Mack had been here before, and he knew that bearbaiting, dogfights, sword fights between women gladiators and all kinds of amusements were held in the backyard.

The bees lived in a glass hive fastened to the bare brick wall of the living room, which opened onto the backyard.

In winter Goodall fed the bees a sugar solution, but the rest of year they foraged in his backyard, those of the neighbours, and probably in Central Park.

Every block, every home, would be a source of energy, from photovoltaic cells, rooftop wind turbines, maybe even biofuel crops in the backyard.

There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing the birdlife return to your backyard or your farm as a result of your gardening efforts.

Park worked together and over the course of a few years they turned the backyard of the Bowditch estate into something remarkable.

While she occupied the rear apartment that looked out onto a warren of postage-stamp-sized backyards, a recluse by the name of Debra Engler resided in the front.

I was about to walk to the third hole, but realized that since the backyard was no longer in the realm of Euclidian Geometry, there was no reason that I should limit myself to operating in a world of Euclidian Geometry.

The backyard, as concise as the house, is enclosed by a scrim of privet hedge and monopolized by flowerbeds: peonies in late, tempestuous bloom, trellised veils of clematis and rugosa roses, gladiolas hinting at the colors sheathed in their spearlike buds.

Miss Sanderson, you are aware that half a dozen adult lunes in your backyard on a moon night does not comply with the laws of confinement?

Martha, who was gathering Tellicherry peppercorns, orrisroot powder, bayberry bark, senna pods, lemon verbena and rosehips from her backyard for potpourri.

Professor D says if a guy is looking for a hunting dog he does not pick a Pekingese pooch, but he gets a dog that is bred to hunt from away back yonder, and if he is after a game chicken he does not take a Plymouth Rock out of the backyard.

At least the cold kept down the smellfrom backyard privies, chicken coops, pigeon houses, pig sties.