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n. (yard sale English)
Usage examples of "yard sales".
Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales.
Weekends, we make the rounds of flea markets and yard sales, picking up old beat-up chairs like this.
All those adults playing archaeologist at yard sales, looking for childhood artifacts, board games, CandyLand, Twister, they're terrified.
Earl had fixed the house up nicely, but the pretty little touches were Laurie'sthe ruffled curtains at the windows, the quaint old pieces of mismatched china she had picked up at yard sales, the braided rug she had made from Earl's old undershirts and overalls.
On getting back to his apartment - he was, perversely, thinking of it as 'home' though he knew better - he stripped everything of tags and headed for the laundry room, where all the clothes went into the machine on a hot-hot cycle with plenty of Clorox bleach, along with the remaining dark-color clothes he'd picked up at yard sales.
More yard sales, which he found tedious, especially now that he'd developed an operational routine.
Rachel's bag held less intriguing itemsa motley collection of linens from box-lots bought at auctions and yard sales that had failed to meet Cheryl's high standards.
Harmony made the rounds of yard sales, and came up with some jeans that actually fit Grace, as well as some tight knit tops and a pair of sturdy hiking boots.
Find stuff at yard sales or flea markets and haul it home, fix it up.
And before long she is scouring yard sales and junk shops trying to mend the broken toys as if each completed space ranger were a magic charm with the power to heal a mortally wounded man.
Dad and I bought most of our stuff from yard sales, or were given hand-me-downs by other rodeo people.
It'll be the same old crap, of course - yard sales and community puffery - but he wants to get a look, anyway.