dooryard

NOUN
  1. a yard outside the front or rear door of a house

How To Use dooryard In A Sentence

  • The next morning, she was looking through the garden when she saw a familiar white truck round the corner of her drive and pull into her dooryard.
  • And at last the owner men drove into the dooryards and sat in their cars to talk out of the windows.
  • I pushed open the little gate and walked into the dooryard with the neatly mown grass bordered by lilacs and peonies and day lilies…
  • In the second, Miss Rondel was right here in the dooryard, pinning a towel to her clothesline. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • She drove up the small drive into her own dooryard.
  • Then she saw movement just in the corner of the dooryard.
  • Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off. Land of Green Gables
  • a small savine in the dooryard that stood where Kate wanted to set A Daughter of the Land
  • William led Rose out of the woods into the dooryard, and saw Sarah sitting on the steps of the porch, her chin in her hands, looking quite glum. Dragon Warrior
  • He can get hold of a fellow's got a bulldozer to clear a road from the old glove factory to the dooryard. THE SHIPPING NEWS
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