victory garden
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of victory garden
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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“So as a start, I suggest maybe you reduce your lawn and have a native plant victory garden, where the food is not for you, but for the wild animals who live here.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2022
Spangler and Clayton agreed maintaining their victory garden is a time commitment, but it can bring people together to rally around a cause that’s desperate for solutions.
From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2020
During the war, the Mazzas — husband Louis; children Olga, Dorothy, Helen and Raymond — had a victory garden there.
From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2018
Her plot is the latest and largest descendant of Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1943 victory garden at the White House.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2015
One solution to the food scarcity, or shortage, was a victory garden, also called a war garden.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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