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Example sentences for "backyards"

Lexicographically close words:
backwood; backwoods; backwoodsman; backwoodsmen; backyard; bacon; bacteria; bacterial; bactericidal; bacteriologic
  1. A shabby world of untidy backyards and smoke-blackened houses, huddled horribly close together--at least the Duvals had had no untidy neighbors and certainly there had been plenty of elbow room.

  2. I followed the workers to their work, the thieves and wantons to their haunts, the children to their schools, and the homeless loafers to the holes and corners, the open passages and backyards where they herded together at night.

  3. He did not know where to begin his search, so he went into the courts and backyards and asked at random.

  4. He said my father was going about the backyards fishing things out of dustbins--so I gave him a few on the jaw.

  5. He visited various houses in Gardener Street, Castle Street, Norway Street, making his way through backyards and up dark, narrow stairs, up to the garrets or down to the cellars.

  6. There was a sound of chattering in backyards and on staircases.

  7. Those on the seaward side are built right on to the water so that many of them have ladders hanging from their backyards by which the men can climb down into their boats.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backyards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.