How To Use Courtyard In A Sentence

A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
Thousands of people can live in a hutong which is made up of hundreds of quadrangular courtyards each surrounded by four homes.
Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below. TREASON KEEP
He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
Gunmen also torched a van parked in the courtyard, as well as a large toolshed.

The main focus for improvement was the school's internal courtyard, a new sandpit with cover, a revamped pond changed into a herb garden and the creation of play and quiet areas.
She took a long drink of water, swallowing it slowly as she looked around the courtyard.
Baths were taken in tubs and emptied after use on shrubs in the courtyard.
In the center of campus, wedged between the six outer buildings, was the Mason Courtyard, a large stone courtyard, filled with groves of magnolias and palmettos.
Minas knew everyone, having cadged dinners and so-called symposia out of most people who had a dining room or a courtyard that lay close to a good wine cellar. See Delphi and Die
The masseuse applied fragrant medicated oils on the head and body in plentiful measure as one lay on a high wooden plank on the secluded verandah of an open walled courtyard.
Ornate doorways offer glimpses of inner courtyards and enticing interiors; many are university buildings, but just as many are candlelit bistros and bars.
Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
The development has been constructed around several landscaped courtyards and features both underground and surface car parking.
He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
I went to the woody area in the middle of the maze in the courtyard of our school that not many people know even exists and began to eat my lunch when I overheard Mercedes and another girl talking.
We laid out a third trench 3 m east of the second trench in order to further investigate the large central room of the northern series as well as to uncover its southern wall and part of the large central courtyard (tentatively identified as the palaestra of the complex). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Near the Theater Report 7
You can glimpse the sea from the rear cobbled courtyard garden. Times, Sunday Times
This third and largest courtyard, St George's Square, is in a uniform neo-Classical style by Pacassi.
Manager David Barham added: ‘The wedding guests will be restricted to to a very tightly controlled area which includes the buildings and main courtyard.’
These constricted walkways close one in but then open into wide courtyards where young maidens dance around wells, their sing-song voices light and lustrous.
An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions. Coming Soon? Hamas' Media Massacre
I heard the metallic ring of a horse's shoes striking the temple's stone courtyard.
The long thin office wings enclose two hermetic internal courtyards or patios.
The planting in the courtyard, with tall swaying grasses and flowering shrubs, softens the hard lines of the steel and glass structures. Times, Sunday Times
They sat at one of the better tables up beside the parapet overlooking the courtyard.
Let's have a walk in the courtyard.
This would typically comprise individual cells arranged around a central courtyard very often enclosing a railed tree, a shrine room, and an ambulatory.
Off a tiny lane lined with tailors' shops, this traditional Damascene mansion overlooks an atmospheric courtyard.
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An unexploded bomb is lodged ominously in the courtyard, a neat visual allegory for the sense of imminent threat in the film. Times, Sunday Times
There were times when I walked through the streets dressed as a boy, lining up with the men in front of Arabian bordellos to peek into a courtyard filled with women.
An almond tree bloomed in the courtyard. WALKING THE BIBLE
In the inner courtyard an attractive sundial catches the eye of the visitor.
The carriage rattled gently past the gatehouse, its wheels grating on the rocky path into the courtyard.
There is a walled concrete courtyard with a garage, boilerhouse and coalhouse to the back.
Tamasha can be performed, anywhere, without the construction of any special stage like the village square, the courtyard of any house, an open ground or even on an artificial stage.
Why, only yesterday the desperate villain handcuffed the very sheriff in the very courtyard! The Hidden Hand
The design's signature is the curved wall that defines an edge of the courtyard.
The courtyard/village houses have railed front gardens and private back gardens and come in a variety of styles.
A front yard of usable dimensions to kick a ball, or have a front yard courtyard where outside lounging, eating, and sun rays can be experienced is usually eliminated. An apartment bunker in your neighborhood? If it's "delightful." (Jack Bog's Blog)
Ten nights of concerts in the courtyards of the palace. Times, Sunday Times
Bedroom 4 is the most peaceful room in the Inn with French doors looking out on the garden courtyard and fountain.
The only traditional bricklaying was around the lift shaft in the rear courtyard.
The three-bedroom terraced home has an open-plan ground floor and a secluded courtyard patio. Times, Sunday Times
If he was admitted, the iron grating ( "portcullis") rose slowly on its creaking pulleys, the heavy, wooden doors swung open, and he found himself in the courtyard commanded by the great central tower ( "keep"), where the lord and his family lived, especially in time of war. Early European History
There were flowers in abundance in the courtyard; red hibiscus, pink jasmine and gladioli. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
So far, the central courtyard – featuring in the middle a round monument or tholos – the western row of shops, the southern portico and the southern half of the eastern row of shops have been excavated. The Macellum: Aims 2009 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds
Fortunately for me (but not for the tree) the pittosporum would have drastically slowed the car as it ploughed through my front courtyard.
The procession passed ranks of red-clad guards, their gold badges shining brightly in the sunlight, and turned into the sanded courtyard outside the hall.
The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
The dirty, white stone front of the shop, which stocked boxes of beer cans, was pitted with bullet holes, while a car and lorry parked in the protected courtyard outside were badly damaged in the attack.
At this seemingly baseless threat, Henry laughed an insane giggle which rang all throughout the courtyard.
On the second floor, a long terrace encircles the courtyard at the center of which stands a typical Spanish-inspired fountain.
On warm sunny days, employees can eat in a sheltered outdoor courtyard near an old-fashioned gazebo.
Lush courtyard gardens host exotic plants. Times, Sunday Times
The three-bedroom terraced home has an open-plan ground floor and a secluded courtyard patio. Times, Sunday Times
The group recorded their new CD in the Moroccan city of Fez, in the courtyard of a converted riad.
Indeed the Carthaginian captives could distinguish the velaria spread over the courtyards of their houses, beyond the gulf on the slopes of Byrsa. Salammbo
And on the evening of December 9, there is jazz in the museum courtyard.
The situation in south-west England is broadly comparable to southern Scotland, with rounds (small enclosed homesteads), courtyard houses, and souterrains present, though only one villa has been recognized west of Exeter.
Burley-in-Wharfedale based Burley Developments Limited, has applied to build seven apartments and 14 three-storey town houses surrounding a new open courtyard at the site.
With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity.
There is a walled courtyard garden and room at the rear for a small car and a dinghy. Times, Sunday Times
But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big.
Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists.
The sandstone, glass and zinc building includes glazed staircases, landscaped courtyards and a high-level glass bridge.
In the meantime, a sudden cloud had appeared, and a few large drops of rain spattered the courtyard.
At the west end of the courtyard, a semicircular base may mark the location of a semantron, a resonant plank struck to call the monks to prayer. A Sacred Congregation
The words we speak help to build a kind of inner dwelling, plotting out the psyche's suite of rooms and corridors and courtyards, its stairways, arbours, spots of sun and shade.
The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, suffocating.
They were halted again at a gloomy gateway where an officer came out to look them over; by his leave they left the gharry and followed him under the arch until their heels rang on stone paving in a big ill-lighted courtyard surrounded by high walls. In The Time Of Light
The small courtyard is also crowded with anxious relatives and concerned neighbours.
True structural stepped arches with cast stone plinth block, spring line bases, and keystone are the focus of the main entry courtyard beyond the cast stone stair and ramp.
I could hear voices in the courtyard below my window.
The courtyard was shabby, with dying plants, chipped and broken statuary. THE GOLDEN LION
I am nobody, says Ulrika Jonsson from behind Miu Miu shades as we sit in the sunny, if poncy, courtyard of the Hotel du Vin in Henley on Thames. The Saturday interview: Ulrika Jonsson
Built of uniformly gray, granular volcanic tufa, or peperino, the courtyard was completed by 1579, as recorded in the building documents.
The noise was deafening as we reached the little courtyard and stooped to enter the main room of the temple.
We especially loved the garden cottages and their alfresco showers in tiny gravelled courtyards. Times, Sunday Times
Amid apologies, he was ushered in, and led to a familiar inner courtyard to wait.
The courtyard was shaded on all sides by trees and tall walls.
The original pine floors and knotted wood panelling both have a rich patina of time, and we love the steep staircase and the cobbled courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
An idea slipped out, as formless at first as the faint shadows of the courtyard around them in the early rays of dawn.
I heard footsteps crunching towards me across the white pebble courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
Between the outbuildings, we glimpsed tables and chairs set out beneath a canopy of mulberry trees in the courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
Both the lattices and courtyards have historically been used to filter light and block wind. Oregon Beach House
Most of the townhouses at Eastham Court are laid out in small courtyards, with most having good-sized back gardens.
At the far end of the courtyard is a red door with a glass window and, on a wall to one side, is a brass plate announcing the department in a clearer and more elegant fashion.
From here, the entrance route is via a semi-enclosed courtyard with a concrete retaining wall.
You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids. Remnant of a Humanist Past
The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J. Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All
The new complex, near Celbridge, will also include internal courtyards, offices, library, archives and reception rooms.
A squadron of the Guard in the barracks courtyard was doing routine drills.
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Redgauntlet
And he liked the other clerks, who still played basketball together and gathered for weekly happy hours at the court's interior courtyards.
There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.
I whipped the Ferrari into the courtyard, gunning the engine.
The sun was pouring into the courtyard and his brawny arms glistened with sweat.
The long thin office wings enclose two hermetic internal courtyards or patios.
The home will be built around a central courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
Inside, the old town wiggles and winds in on itself, a labyrinth of narrow alleys and high walls, hiding dark courtyards.
The rain had turned the tiny courtyard between them into a field of mud and mire and it took longer than I expected to pass over the officer's quarters.
He'd walked the various courtyards, banquet halls and audience rooms during the few times when the Inner Circle had been required to meet.
They are spread across four buildings, some overlooking the old coach courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
A faint light now appears behind the beaded curtain of one of the houses that face the courtyard.
The columned patio seemed small and intricate, like some bijou box, and behind it the palace's sequence of towers, courtyards and light airy chambers, even brighter and calmer than was possible in so bright and golden a sun.
In fact, many of the finest homes in America are graced with courtyards, terraces, garden paths and drives paved with brick.
Misha darted away into the courtyard, and into the carriage, waved his cap over his head, hallooed, — the monstrous coachman leered at him over his beard, the greys dashed off, and all vanished! A Desperate Character
I intend to dig a seepage pit in the courtyard.
The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.
A short walk out of the centre brings you to the cool stone walls of the cloistered courtyard, a welcome oasis of calm away from the busy city streets.
Moreover, through the use of space, light, colour and reinterpretation of archetypal forms such as modestly scaled internal courtyards, it manages to humanize and civilize workplace life.
Courtyard rooms face "inwards" - a quiet winter choice away from blustery winds. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Singlewood, 17, ran into the courtyard of Durham Castle in a desperate bid to shake off his pursuer.
The garden itself is now a paved courtyard with high white walls. Times, Sunday Times
There are two self-contained cottages facing the courtyard, but no stables.
The pear-shaped white dome surrounded by a marble-paved courtyard is visible from a distance.
Off a lane where market traders push rickety handcarts toward the bazaar, steps lead into the courtyard of a Shia religious school.
Downside The garden is secluded but you only get a small courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
From the length of the Royal Mile runs a spider's web of cobbled alleyways, ancient courtyards and wynds.
It has an agreeable courtyard with an elegant staircase and houses a small museum dealing with the history of Funchal.
Lush courtyard gardens host exotic plants. Times, Sunday Times
Opposite the entrance, across the courtyard, is a roughly circular room, which may have had a conical roof of turf or thatch.
For instance when I was in Hargeisa the Oriental Hotel charged $15 for a clean room with fan and shower and $4 for a great meal in a great setting -- a large indoor courtyard with pergolas and balconies -- right in the center of Hargeisa. Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS)
Here are elegantly arched courtyards filled with birdsong and the splash of fountains, a vaulted loggia and walled Arab garden, and everywhere tubs of orange trees and coiling branches of jasmine to scent the air.
The new accommodation is on one floor, set round a pretty courtyard which echoes the traditional details of the existing structure.
The Morning Prayer Hall courtyard features a salsabil, or paradise water fountain, as its centerpiece, while the main garden is inlaid with a network of small water canals connected to a central fountain. Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: A Monument of Tolerance in the Heart of Dubai
Downside The garden is secluded but you only get a small courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor is primarily transparent, providing a sense of the park extending through the building and into the courtyard, where a grove of Yellow birch provides shade and protection.
This form, upon which our modern atria are based, was enclosed on all sides by buildings with roofs sloping to a columned peristyle or walkway around a courtyard.
The chancellery complex, in fact, is not a dayuan as such; it is not an introverted fortress with a courtyard in the middle, although many embassy and chancellery buildings are fortified in one way or another.
In the warm sunshine ancient courtyards beckon, inviting exploration.
And on the evening of December 9, there is jazz in the museum courtyard. How cool is that?
Oblivious to his hectic surroundings, the man carried on with his lonely saunter until he reached an uncharacteristically quiet corner of the courtyard void of any activity.
These are set around a pretty cobbled courtyard with gardens. Times, Sunday Times
Outside, the traffic hurtles by but the vast number of shrubs and trees lining the courtyard absorb the sound and look spectacular in their autumnal foliage.
A restaurant's courtyard in Oaxaca is covered with a lavender-flowering vine, attracting bumblebees and small birds.
We were led outside the building to a little walled courtyard with a flooring of red brick. FATAL FLAW
I was in one of the many courtyards I'd noticed during my first vi a grassy rectangle rimmed on three sides by a h: edge of eugenia. Blood Test
It's kind of, well, just a slabbed area at the moment, but I have a plan to make it into a small courtyard garden.
Mr. Amster says over 500 of the 9,000 courtyard houses they are called a riad when the central patio includes a garden, a dar if not have been restored and taken over by outsiders — either foreigners or Moroccans from outside the medina — to be used as vacation homes, boutique hotels or full-time residences. Finding Your Own Place in Fes
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at Redgauntlet
From the granite-and-marble statues of Old Testament kings above the main courtyard, to the blue azulejo tiles in the royal apartments (to say nothing of the Titians, El Grecos, and Riberas), the Escorial has borne up splendidly over four centuries. The Caudillo’s Cloister
Furthermore, employees made use of the courtyard for their lunch breaks, eating their meals and enjoying the view of a fountain.
Once or twice he even called Mr. Archer mysteriously forth into the dark courtyard, took him by the button, and laid a demonstrative finger on his chest; but there his ideas or his courage failed him; he would shufflingly excuse himself and return to his position by the fire without a word of explanation. Lay Morals
The windows on these faces look into narrow protected alleys or the small courtyard between the houses.
The building has an impressive and imposing street presence, while also enclosing a peaceful courtyard within the campus.
It has an enchanting courtyard garden and was then in a tranquil part of the city. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically moulded, which is sent into Ireland, that is to say, over the roofs of a prison, from one courtyard to another. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
The landlady stood in the courtyard, hunched over her largest sinsemilla plant. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
Your reverence, I saw four pure black bulls who came from the four directions to fight in the palace courtyard.
When they entered the courtyard, several stableboys rushed forward to take their mounts, and a tall, thin man with horn-rimmed glasses and a heavy fur coat ushered them into the castle.
Around the courtyard were trees that stood fifteen feet in height set an exact distance apart from each other.
The hustle and bustle of the urban streetscape intentionally contrasts with the serenity of a residents' garden courtyard designed to engender social interaction.
In the middle stood a courtyard open to the sky. Times, Sunday Times
In the houses of prominent persons and local notables, another set of stairs is located immediately inside the front door without a view of the inner sanctuary of the courtyard.
They bathe either in the _chauk_ or central courtyard, or go out and bathe in a tank or river or at The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
The same soothing mix of wood, cane, cotton, and thatch prevails in the resort's beachfront courtyard.
The scheme comprises 230 homes laid out in a series of courtyard settings and surrounded by green areas.
A breakfast room, which has recently been added onto the kitchen, faces onto the courtyard through a French door.
The huge central courtyard is strewn with rubble after months of heavy shelling. Times, Sunday Times
He shows us La Fuente with its maze of shops and its indigenous market, a veritable carpet of embroidered and woven textiles laid out in the courtyard sun around the fountain.
In this plan, two pagodas were built in front of one Main Hall in the main courtyard.
From the courtyard, the explosion of a grenade shook the house.
I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me.
Each suite features a marble bathroom, sunken bath, terrace and landscaped courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
Every time this folk singer sings in her guttural voice, she draws a motley audience around her courtyard.
It's an attractive sight from the road — a courtyard with olive trees and tables for predinner chat. Times, Sunday Times
The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost.
From a dark courtyard came a sound of oaths and blows, followed by shrill screams, and, huddled upon a damp doorstep, he saw the crook-backed forms of poverty and eld.
How often I watched the birds in our courtyard leaving the trees and flying beyond the walls of our house with no fear.
Plant this feathery-leaf palm in a well-draining, organically enriched sandy soil with a southern exposure or in a courtyard.
Another Cuneo!" groaned Aunt Kathryn, at sight of the hotel in the steep little town of Desenzano, on Lake Garda; but later she apologized to the quaint courtyard for her misunderstanding, and was more than tolerant of her vast bedroom draped with yellow satin, and opening on an arboured terrace worthy even of a Countess Dalmar. My Friend the Chauffeur
This led out into a courtyard where the wood for the stove was stored.
An interior courtyard boasts a graceful arched door and elegant windows and the landing is adorned with carved wooden cherubs at the four corners of a decorated dome.
The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches.
They also were puzzled by the presence in the enclosed courtyard of a new glass-walled room that seemed to be a guardhouse.
His two sons were standing in the courtyard, near the stables, as the tarantass drove up.
Getty Images Kirsten Dunst In Mr. Burkle's courtyard, many guests happily engaged in the kind of one-upmanship that comprises much of award season weekends. A Night at a Hollywood 'Museum'
Visitors are banned from the courtyard and all buildings are secured with chains and combination locks. Times, Sunday Times
Ours was one of nine in a converted stable block and around their own courtyard. The Sun
But I kept running faster and faster until I got to the courtyard where I jumped into the cold, frigid fountain and let the water wash over my body.
The new practice will be built around a glass central courtyard, which will be planted with shrubs and greenery.
A great gateway opens from the park into a kind of courtyard in front of the house, ornamented with a grassplot, shrubs, and flower-beds. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Laid out around a series of courtyards, this school was designed to provide children with big spaces for play, as well as sandpits, quiet courtyards and a mix of grass and paved surfaces.
A porch off the great room extends the living space out to a courtyard with a dipping pool and deluxe alfresco kitchen.
Chinguetti, a town that sits on the edge of an immense sea of sand like a harbour village, is a sprawl of labyrinthine streets and walled courtyards.
Yellowing green and flame-coloured leaves carpet the unevenly cobbled courtyard.
The courtyard was only twenty square yards, but there was a drainpipe where the fence met the wall. Henry’s Demons
It was easy enough to hang around in the courtyard enjoying the soft splash of sunlight on her bare arms.
Instead, she drew her legs over the edge of her bedstead and her night garments against her chest to keep out the morning air, listening to the din in the Mynaen Courtyard below.
In the brick paved courtyard to the rear, there is a newly roofed stone building with loft, which could be converted into a studio, workshop or provide extra bedrooms for a bed and breakfast facility.
They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it, and sift through the trapped folk.
The garden, reflecting the Elizabethan fashion, has four courtyards enclosed by high sandstone walls.
It is forklifted off the truck and dropped into a cement-lined, 3-foot-deep hole in the center of the hotel's courtyard.
Two courtyards sunk into the building's roof structure allow light to penetrate deep into the building.
There was an inner courtyard with a little pond, which was perfect for relaxing. Times, Sunday Times
Using: suitable at courtyard, lawn lampstreet lamp etc. solar power supply.
Roses trailed across trellised arcades, the trellis in the courtyard inspiring Morris's earliest wallpaper design.

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