Get to know Backyards better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Backyards meaning
plural of backyard
Using Backyards
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of backyard
- In the example corpus, backyards often appears in combinations such as: their backyards, backyards and, the backyards.
Context around Backyards
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 9 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Backyards
- In this selection, "backyards" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, own, backing, encroaching and mocking stand out and add context to how "backyards" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in their backyards and foot through backyards and city. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "backyards" sits close to words such as abelian, acer and agrippina, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with backyards
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Families grew victory gardens in their backyards. (7 words)
Another neighbor had also seen the unusual activity in the backyards, and called authorities. (14 words)
They’re not passing through the backyards of the rich enclaves in this country. (14 words)
When a cop in a patrol car activated emergency lights to stop him, Westervelt first made a U-turn with his bicycle, then abandoned it and ran on foot through backyards and city streets until he was felled by two Taser prongs fired by a detective. (46 words)
Last week, homeowners on Montevista and Papillons streets, who have backyards backing on to the Hydro-Québec servitude or with backyards encroaching on the servitude, were contacted by Hydro-Québec and given details about the timeline for the work. (39 words)
Canada's Quebec province is rich with minerals needed for everything from electric cars to cell phones, but residents living atop the potential windfall are worried their backyards will be dug up—and they won't get a dime. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Last week, homeowners on Montevista and Papillons streets, who have backyards backing on to the Hydro-Québec servitude or with backyards encroaching on the servitude, were contacted by Hydro-Québec and given details about the timeline for the work.
Another neighbor had also seen the unusual activity in the backyards, and called authorities.
A relatively new sport, ultimate disc is one of several games that uses a flying disc of the sort popularly tossed about in parks and backyards.
At one point, she even had her own Facebook page that chronicled her adventures and where locals would post photos of her visits to their backyards.
Even Democrats are finally starting to speak out on Biden’s border crisis now that it has reached their backyards.
Every February, millions participate by counting the variety of birds in their backyards and reporting their findings.
Laughter, banter and gossip are the perfect accompaniments to the fun baking session, which almost always happens in the backyards of the ancestral Goan homes.
One woman and her friends decided to drunkenly skinny-dip in a hot tub in one of their backyards, but their fun was cut short when they noticed something or someone was watching from afar.
Property owner Joe Mikhail says he has papers that show landowners had a previous agreement with the municipality promising their backyards would be returned once the promenade project was done.
So slaves would hold their own mini events in the backyards, mocking their masters' ostentatious behavior, and weaving in their own traditions.
These are connecting existing trails that are easy for Utahns to access, those running near parks and rivers, and just over the fences of some of our own backyards.
They’re not passing through the backyards of the rich enclaves in this country.
When a cop in a patrol car activated emergency lights to stop him, Westervelt first made a U-turn with his bicycle, then abandoned it and ran on foot through backyards and city streets until he was felled by two Taser prongs fired by a detective.
A man in a white tank top smoking a cigarette was running through backyards hurtling fences in Kalispell.
But it does mean a good ol’ public information campaign is in order to avoid hundreds of kids getting sick on a regular basis in their own backyards.
Canada's Quebec province is rich with minerals needed for everything from electric cars to cell phones, but residents living atop the potential windfall are worried their backyards will be dug up—and they won't get a dime.
Families grew victory gardens in their backyards.
If medical spas are thriving in our backyards, we deserve assurance that they will not bring harm to our communities.
In addition, the “seed trade” was big business, with middle- and upper-class landowner buying plants from around the world to study in their backyards.
I remember the 1960s, when I started primary school and spent a lot of time as a child and later as a teenager in backyards and playgrounds between the old apartment blocks in Ljubljana's Šiška borough.
Common combinations with backyards
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- their backyards 23×
- backyards and 19×
- the backyards 9×
- own backyards 7×
- in backyards 7×
- and backyards 5×
- backyards of 5×
- our backyards 5×
- backyards in 4×
- through backyards 3×