square yard
Americannoun
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Two decades ago, “the ‘heavy’ T-shirts might have weighed 8 to 10 ounces per square yard of fabric,” explains Easter.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024
If ODA finds more than three Mormon crickets or eight grasshoppers per square yard it will recommend chemical treatment.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2022
Downstairs, a sunporch with orchids and potted shrubs faced a little square yard planted with orange and tangerine trees.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
"The day I went there, they had an entire football field of artificial grass for $1 per square yard."
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2014
My fingers bled from scraping out the rocks and it seemed that a square yard of ground produced a wheelbarrow full of rocks which I had to push down to the retaining wall.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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