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
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
The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sounder panted faster, wagged his tail, whined, moved from the dooryard to the porch and back to the dooryard.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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