dooryard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dooryard
Example Sentences
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Plus, many Vermonters have - for more than a century now - taken great pride in the ingenuity and resourcefulness of dooryard junkers.
From Washington Times • Apr. 2, 2021
The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg.
From Time Magazine Archive
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
From Time Magazine Archive
There might have been no war at all for an hour or so, as the men ate and joked in the mellow sunlight of the dooryard.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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