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
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
At 5:50, dripping wet and covered with mud, she reached Farmer Reuben Schupbach's dooryard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tavern keepers were amazed when a carriage turned unheralded into their dooryard and out stepped a tall man who proved to be the President of the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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