yard sale
Americannoun
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yard sales
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of yard sale
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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There’s a dead spot on the former site of a bounce house, and the detritus of five children suggests, at all times, that we are running the world’s chintziest yard sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Wonder what they got at the yard sale to justify that?
From Salon ● May 15, 2025
The local online parent group, where I’d hoped to find new friends, was basically a random yard sale.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025
A friend was telling me about readying for a twice-a-year neighborhood yard sale, how she had begun decluttering in anticipation of the event.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
For the rest of the day she remained in the kitchen, unable to watch the miscellaneous horde of yard sale scavengers pick over her personal possessions.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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