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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Chamlee once picked up a charming ceramic sun at a yard sale for $30—only to learn via Google that the stamp on the back marked it as a rare piece by midcentury potter David Gil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
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
Facing me when I entered was the old portrait of Patriarch Athenagoras that Desdemona had saved from the yard sale years ago.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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