Use yard in a sentence
Sentences ending with yard
- That night another wounded man was driven down the Povarskaya, and Mavra Kuzminichna, who was standing at the gate, had him brought into the Rostovs' yard. [2]
- They bungle their work terribly at Scotland Yard. [11]
- Several bandaged soldiers, with pale swollen faces, were sitting or walking about in the sunshine in the yard. [2]
- The loaded carts were still standing in the yard. [2]
- There would be Tom and Alfred and Russell and Julia and little Myra with her grass-stained knees, faring forth to seek the adventures of a new day in the shady western yard. [9]
- I lost no time in riding to Westminster, where I found a flock of excited people in Parliament Street and in the Palace Yard. [9]
- He sent me through a long hallway, and I found myself in a back yard. [5]
- It happened like this: About a year or more ago, the rats got to pestering my place a good deal, and I set up a steel trap in my back yard. [5]
- Others, Hornecht among them, pressed past him into the yard. [10]
- Let us burn them all in a heap out in the yard. [6]
Short sentences using yard
- Scotland Yard is beneath contempt. [11]
- The yard was absolutely empty. [10]
Sentences containing yard two or more times
- Slowly, slowly up, foot by foot, yard by yard, until one-third of the distance was climbed. [11]
- How it flew across street and alley, from yard to yard, and from house to house! [9]
- Hence, in China, a man's front yard, back yard, or any other part of his premises, is made his family burying ground, in order that he may visit the graves at any and all times. [5]
More example sentences with the word yard in them
- A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
- My house my yard, everything around me, in fact, shows' that I am becoming one of these cattle--and I used to be thrifty in other times. [5]
- It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
- In the Palace yard a thousand men stood at attention, and at their head was Cushnan Di with fifty hillsmen. [11]
- Out in the yard a sumach bush was aflame. [11]
- Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
- A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
- A copper-colored skeleton, with a rag around him, brought me a glass decanter of water, with a lighted tobacco pipe in the top of it, and a pliant stem a yard long, with a brass mouth-piece to it. [5]
- The young fellow whom they call John was in the yard, sitting on a barrel and smoking a cheroot, the fumes of which came in, not ungrateful, through the open window. [6]
- The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street. [2]
- And--" [Here Simon Wheeler heard his name called from the front yard, and got up to see what was wanted. [5]
- The two houses were separated by an ordinary yard, with a low fence running back through its middle from the street in front to the lane in the rear. [5]
- We know dam' well there is food buried in the yard or under the floor, and it would be droll to open the place for a day--Lost Man's Tavern, we called it. [11]
- It would be well if they could be relieved from duty and flung out in the literary back yard to rot and disappear along with the discarded and forgotten "steeds" and "halidomes" and similar stage-properties once so dear to our grandfathers. [5]
- A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
- While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips. [2]
- Its first boss was Clive, a sufficiently crooked person sometimes, but straight as a yard stick when compared with the corkscrew crookedness of the second boss, Warren Hastings. [5]
- In the rear was a small yard, surrounded by a board fence, in which the prisoner took his exercise. [4]
- One of them was a poor half-witted woman who had stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver --she was to be hanged for it. [5]
- Bounding swiftly away, Venters fled around the corner, across the street, and, leaping a hedge, he ran through yard, orchard, and garden to the sage. [13]
- You come unexpectedly upon truck-loads of tanned youngsters, whose features, despite flannel shirts and campaign hats, summon up memories of Harvard Square and the Yale Yard, of campuses at Berkeley and Ithaca. [9]
- An officer picked up a few curls, preserved in a bit of cardboard, and marked 'Ned's hair, with love'; but around were strewn locks, some near a yard in length, dissevered, not as a keepsake, by quite other scissors. [5]
- A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
- A shout of triumph announced that the gates, like a broken dam, had given way, and the torrent poured in between the posts, flooding the yard, pressing up the towered stairways and spreading through the compartments of the mill. [9]
- She would come tripping into the stable yard, daintily holding up her skirts, and crying, "Oh, Harvey, I have heard so much of Tanglefoot. [9]
- A hundred little tokens of her affection for me rose to mind, and last of all that rescue from Castle Yard in the face of all Mayfair. [9]
- She led him to the window, and pointed to a spot among the drenched weeds and rubbish in the yard next door. [9]
- Fingall told him to leave the yard, and they would settle some other time. [11]
- She did not think that very funny; but after a first impulse to inculpate her husband, she let him laugh, while they stopped under a lamp and she held the permits half a yard away to read the numbers on them. [8]
- I can see them hopping around her in the Peters yard crying out:--"Nancy's in love with Hugh! [9]
- The soldiers in the yard, hearing the shot, came into the passage asking what had happened, and expressed their readiness to punish the culprits, but the officer sternly checked them. [2]
- Besides, there was the yard to cross and the outer wall to scale. [11]
- We went through the yard so as to see what the hounds would do. [5]
- He came down the yard slowly, and presently paused and looked at Gabord and the young officer, his head laid a little to one side in a quizzical fashion, his eyelids drooping. [11]
- Going out into the yard she paused to consider where she should go next--to drink tea in the servants' wing with Vasilich, or into the storeroom to put away what still lay about. [2]
- The people in the yard of the mansion parted, and the General himself walked proudly out of the gate to the curb, where his charger was pawing the gutter. [9]
- Walking back toward the Yard my attention was attracted by a slowly approaching cab whose occupants were disturbing the quiet of the night with song. [9]
- It rests on the yard for awhile, and they can look at it all they like, and envy it, and thank it for its message. [5]
- Yes, go to the yard and fetch a fowl, please, a cock, and you, Misha, bring me some oats. [2]
- She ran across the street, turned down a side street to the left, and, passing three houses, turned into a yard on the right. [2]
- He made for the stables, and found Jacques pacing the yard. [11]
- All had heard the romance of the Beauty and Castle Yard, and some had listened to Horry Walpole tell that foolish story of Goble at Windsor, on which he seemed to set such store. [9]
- I went through the Peters yard, climbed the wire fence, my object being to discover first from Ella, the housemaid, or Hannah, the cook, how much was known in high quarters. [9]
- I intend visiting the Navy Yard, Mint, etc., before I write again. [5]
- Have to keep the middle of the yard for the clothesline, but six days in the week it's a lawn, and I go over it with a mower myself. [8]
- That was how the king and Pierre met her in the yard of Fort Comfort one evening of early autumn. [11]
- Mavra Kuzminichna opened the gate and an officer of eighteen, with the round face of a Rostov, entered the yard. [2]
- He had spent the first night in the same yard as the Rostovs. [2]
- While she and the factor's wife were alone in the yard of the post one day, an Indian--chief, Arrowhead, in warpaint and feathers, entered suddenly, brandishing a long knife. [11]
- One by one the carts with the wounded had moved out of the yard. [2]
- When I judged that the time was ripe, I crept to the room next the nursery, glanced through the window, and saw the dim outline of the coachman in the yard below, standing at present-arms and waiting for a chance. [5]
- Like the pools that stand between the broken fragments and square blocks in a stonecutter's yard, after a heavy thunder-shower. [10]
- He went down that staircase and out into the yard. [2]
- The old count, suddenly setting to work, kept passing from the yard to the house and back again, shouting confused instructions to the hurrying people, and flurrying them still more. [2]
- Hodder took in, subconsciously, that the house was a dingy grey, of three stories and a Mansard roof, with a bay window on the yard side, and a fly-blown sign, "Rooms to Rent" hanging in one window. [9]
- For, while he stood there, looking out into the yard of the fort, a Protestant missionary passed the window. [11]
- In the yard stood the carts ready corded. [2]
- The yard was still as Parfaite had described it-- full of rank grass, through which one path trailed to the open door. [11]
- Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder! [5]
- Straw of all sorts might be expected to be found here, not only on the wooden platform but on the floor, in the yard, and everywhere else, as surely as leaves upon the ground of a wood in the autumn. [10]
- I would as soon taking an airing on the slant of a rainbow as in such a front yard. [5]
- But there were some carriages waiting, and as soon as Pierre stepped out of the gate the coachmen and the yard porter noticed him and raised their caps to him. [2]
- He thought it so good,--or so bad,--that he took me aside last night at Lady Tankerville's, asked me why I had let you out of Castle Yard, and told me I must manage to curb your tongue. [9]
- There isn't a single square yard of that whole belt but is equipped with a torpedo. [5]
- The blazing sunshine showed it up in a hard light, and he studied every square yard of it with a telescope. [11]
- He used to shovel them into his back yard and curse. [5]
- Tell me," says she, pointing at the royal yard of a tall East Indiaman, "did you go as high as that when it was rough? [9]
- These tower stairs, she remembered, led to a yard communicating by a little gate with the office entrance. [9]
- You should have seen her face when he came back to say that you had been for three weeks in a Castle Yard sponging-house! [9]
- Just imagine a Scotland Yard detective with such a delicate business to do. [11]
- He got a sack out of the buggy, shouldered it, and staggered with it through the cottage yard, and knocked at the door. [5]
- Soldiers were continually rushing backwards and forwards near it, and he saw two of them and a man in a frieze coat dragging burning beams into another yard across the street, while others carried bundles of hay. [2]
- There was a row of low stepping-stones across one end of the street, a measured yard apart. [5]
- That night he rode silently out of the Dakoon's palace yard by a quiet gateway, and came, by a roundabout, to a point near the Residency. [11]
- The same,--I said,--when Robert Calef the Boston merchant's book was burned in the yard of Harvard College, by order of Increase Mather, President of the College and Minister of the Gospel. [6]
- An army could ride through and appear in the Palace yard like the mist-shapes from the lost legions. [11]
- The old servant returned to the caleche, looked into it, shook his head disconsolately, told the driver to turn into the yard, and stopped beside Mavra Kuzminichna. [2]
- But when the receipt for his taxes came it was nearly a yard square with due postage of considerable amount. [5]
- Several of them ran into Ferapontov's yard before Alpatych's eyes. [2]
- The spot really possessed many advantages for the secret meeting of two lovers, for as it ran through the whole width of the house, it had two doors, one leading to the street, the other into the yard. [10]
- Our family burial place--my mother's stone cross now stands there beside my father's--was one of those bounded in the rear by the church yard wall; a marble slab set in the masonry bears the owner's name. [10]
- My uncle is passionately fond of flowers, and he makes our little yard bloom with them all summer. [9]
- When these heard Pango Dooni and the others in the Palace yard they were to ride straight for a gate which should be opened to them. [11]
- Tom Peters, leaning over the ornamental cast-iron fence which separated his front yard from the street, presently spied me scanning the sidewalk. [9]
- He came readily out of the barn, but once in the yard he broke from Venters, and plunged about with ears laid back. [13]
- The most of our companions were Tories, for, odd as it may appear, they retained their principles even in Castle Yard. [9]
- The footman sprang onto the box of the moving coach which jolted as it passed out of the yard onto the uneven roadway; the other vehicles jolted in their turn, and the procession of carriages moved up the street. [2]
- Jane turned into one of the wide lanes leading from the main street and entered a huge, shady yard. [13]
- The same roof often extends over half the town, covering many of the streets, which are generally about a yard wide. [5]
- You have broken off the end of your spinal column, and littered up the floor with chips of your hams till the place looks like a marble yard. [5]
- In the Hall of the Heavenly Hours all the chiefs and great people of the land were gathered, and in the Palace yard without were thousands of the people of the Bazaars and the one-storied houses. [11]
- In the yard of the Fort the grass have grown tall, and sprung in the cracks under the doors and windows; the Fort have not been use for a long time. [11]
- A square yard of solid ground is worth miles of the pitching, turbulent stuff. [4]
- But the custom of planting it in the front yard with the shrubbery is fast going out of vogue, for it is now generally conceded that, the pumpkin as a shade tree is a failure. [5]
- What a sense of freedom it gives not to write by the yard or the column! [6]
- The servants ran noisily about the house and yard, shouting and disputing. [2]
- There stood the new double mansion Mr. Spencer Catherwood had built two years before on the outskirts of the town, with the wall at the side, and the brick stable and stable yard. [9]
- It had a neglected yard around it, with a paling fence that needed straightening up, in places, and a gate that would stay shut. [5]
- He was bidding my Hans depart right graciously, and I went forth into the castle yard with Masters Tucher, Stromer, and Schurstab, all members of the Council. [10]
- It was convenient--and my father never went into the back yard in cold weather. [9]
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