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backyard English
Meaning backyard meaning
What does backyard mean?
Definitions in simple English
backyard
backyard
Synonyms backyard synonyms
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Examples backyard examples
How do I use backyard in a sentence?
Simple sentences
The children were playing in the backyard.
My grandmother was pulling up weeds in her backyard.
On a nice spring day, when Jan was digging in the sandbox in the backyard, he found a small box. In the box was a shining switchblade with a mysterious inscription.
Not in my backyard.
I'm in the backyard.
Tom is planting a palm tree in his backyard.
Thank you for clearing the backyard.
I am watering the backyard.
Have you ever watered your backyard?
I cannot water the backyard. There is no water.
Tom is waiting in the backyard.
I like to cut up wood in my backyard.
My backyard can hold more than ten people.
There is a bird feeder in our backyard.
Rake the leaves in the backyard.
We are digging a well in the backyard.
We have a doghouse in our backyard.
Tom got lost in the woods and ended up in someone's backyard.
We piled the wood in the backyard.
We get our water from a pump in the backyard.
There's someone in the backyard.
Movie subtitles
They thought he made up this part three that was buried by a tree on the hill in his backyard.
Mother Krause and her daughter put the newspapers into a baby stroller and go to a backyard.
Sometimes right after the sun goes down, I imagine I see him, out there at the end of the driveway, or over in the backyard.
It wasn't! The rat was running across the backyard.
I should have stayed in my own backyard.
I was coming across the backyard, and I heard this gasping and beating on the door, and I figured there must be a human being in there.
Even if you're way out in the backyard.
Yeah, on a clear day, you can see the backyard.
I'll see you hit the backyard without pay for one year.
You could see because the shades were up and he walked along the corridor and the street and the backyard.
I've seen him in the backyard, fixing the flowers. Oh, Jeff, do you think a murderer would let you see all that?
But it's just a picture of the backyard, that's all.
We're going right into the Japs' backyard and taking it.
Right in your backyard, you might say.
Container in the backyard.
I was coming across the backyard and I heard gasping' and bangin'.
I told her to bury a potato in the backyard.
Derricks everywhere, even the backyard.
A place where disaster and tragedy stalk the big top, haunt the backyard and ride the circus train, where death is constantly watching for one frayed rope, one weak link, or one trace of fear.
I've seen him in the backyard, fixing the flowers.
Why, you could get kicked in the head by a horse in your own backyard.
We planted that elm tree in the backyard.
And the most outdoors I've ever seen was our own backyard.
And have them gently remind me to stay in my own backyard?
Or is it one of them farmhouses, you know, with a telephone booth in the backyard?
There's a pretty poor excuse for one in my backyard.
Those plums must be from somebody's backyard and that French butcher's charging Paris prices.
That door leads to the backyard.
Now take your men through this alley and around to the backyard.
Cactus is probably what grows in your backyard!
He told me that I should never point at anything in the house and that he'd rather I shoot at tin cans in the backyard.
He must have found oil in his backyard.
I thought I should check the backyard and garden of the house.
They're not going to look for us in their own backyard.
News and current affairs
Steel production was promoted by primitive backyard furnaces that industry analysts would consider laughable, but people who understood that had no influence in China then.
Mao Zedong, on visiting and talking to experts at a modern steel plant in Manchuria, is reported to have lost confidence that the backyard furnaces were a good idea after all, but feared the effects of a loss of momentum.
India's rivals were gaining ground in its own backyard, while Indian businesses were losing out on new economic opportunities.
A decade's bloodshed exposed the EU as incapable of solving a crisis in its backyard without American help.
The era in which Europe could rely on America to wage war, make peace, and establish democracy in its own backyard is over.
With European Union enlargement, and as the recent Russian gas crisis demonstrated, that backyard now includes not just Ukraine, but Georgia as well.
With the Gaza Strip in its backyard, Egypt has already mediated several times between Hamas and Fatah, and has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to arrange a swap of prisoners with Israel following Hamas's abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
For the time being, the Chinese may be too preoccupied with their own backyard to pay attention to such insults, but it is foolish to offend them deliberately.
Viewing the region as its strategic backyard and a source of energy, China is now expanding its influence.
The EU's crisis-management and peace-building activities are not restricted to its backyard.
It is an almost pagan sacrifice: in the farm's backyard the animal is held down by a pair of strong men, the pig squealing as much as it can.
The whole world flashes by on our television screens, but the market for our homes, which is comprised almost entirely of local amateurs, remains grounded right there in our own backyard.
The public attention that it has received is rare for scientific news, perhaps owing to concerns that something celestially dangerous is being cooked up in our backyard.
Nowhere does this seem truer than in China's own backyard.
However, the assault from Japan, a speck of dust in its own backyard, shattered this self-assurance and was experienced as a shocking and intolerable humiliation.
Africa, despite some rare individual national successes, continues to underperform, even with the World Cup in its backyard.
To be sure, finding an alternative location for the US base is extremely difficult, as Japanese are as prone to NIMBY (not in my backyard) reactions as anyone else.
But, in confidential briefings, Nigeria has strongly hinted that it will not tolerate any foreign incursions on a vital and strategic resource in its own backyard.
But this does not mean that a Taliban victory or an Afghan crisis that spirals out of control is no threat to the Kremlin's standing in Central Asia, a region it considers its strategic backyard.
He expects the US to offer Israel security assistance to face the challenge that Iran poses, even as he barges clumsily into Obama's political backyard and forges alliances with his domestic opponents.
It is an almost pagan sacrifice: in the farm's backyard the animal is held down by a pair of strong men, the pig squealing as much as it can. Suddenly, a third man cuts the pig's throat, a fountain of blood sprinkling everyone.