courtyard
a court open to the sky, especially one enclosed on all four sides.
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How to use courtyard in a sentence
I’ve also met a porter in our apartment complex who every night at 7 for months sprinted around our central courtyard carrying aloft an American flag.
Every Thanksgiving, my mental health strategy is recalling memorable, personal moments | Bob Brody | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostLess than a mile away, more than 200 people gathered to watch the game in an apartment building’s courtyard.
Football is back in Happy Valley. The coronavirus never left. | Kent Babb | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostThe presidential debate will take place in the Samson Pavilion, which features a massive steel roof and soaring 80-foot-high indoor courtyard.
The Startling Reach and Disparate Impact of Cleveland Clinic’s Private Police Force | by David Armstrong | September 28, 2020 | ProPublicaWe have previously, for example, written about why the city may have done lease-to-own deals for this building and a previous, eerily similar one, Civic Center Plaza, which is right across the courtyard from City Hall.
Politics Report: Alleged Footnote 15 | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | September 5, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThrough a tiny window, I saw people stripped naked in the courtyard.
After our helicopter crashed in the courtyard, Jimbo and I rushed inside the house.
She slow-motion jogs through the courtyard, paints his portrait, and carves his name into a tree.
Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Tay-Tay Scorned | Sujay Kumar | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI entered the metal gates to an open courtyard full of inmates eagerly waiting for their own visitors.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison | Jason Batansky | October 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was there at one of the first gigs by Julian Casablancas and the Voidz at SXSW, in Cedar Street courtyard.
Julian Casablancas Enters the Void: On the Strokes’ Friction, Why He Left NYC, and Starting Over | Marlow Stern | October 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPivoting on his heels, he casually strolled out toward a nearby walled courtyard.
Inside a Hospital for the Criminally Insane | Caitlin Dickson | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellThey found the village inn to be a series of low, small buildings built on three sides of a courtyard.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeOutside in the courtyard the fire was kept burning, beside which two watchmen sat all night smoking and telling stories.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeA favorite of king and courtier, its use was alike common in the palace and the courtyard.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.One side of the courtyard blazed in sunshine, the other lay cool and grey in shadow.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke
British Dictionary definitions for courtyard
/ (ˈkɔːtˌjɑːd) /
an open area of ground surrounded by walls or buildings; court
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