How do you use Dooryard in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like yard or grounds, plus the exact meaning.
Dooryard in a sentence
Dooryard meaning
the yard near the front or back door of a house
Using Dooryard
- The main meaning on this page is: the yard near the front or back door of a house
- Useful related words include: yard, grounds, curtilage.
- In the example corpus, dooryard often appears in combinations such as: the dooryard.
Context around Dooryard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dooryard
- In this selection, "dooryard" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, garden and bloom stand out and add context to how "dooryard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include had a dooryard garden typical and in the dooryard bloom d. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dooryard" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dooryard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dutton’s home had a dooryard garden, typical of mid- nineteenth century New England village homes. (16 words)
The lilac in the dooryard is wearing fat buds, and visions of bouquets in jelly jars and Memorial Day parades dance in the head. (24 words)
Paul Hindemith 's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. (42 words)
Paul Hindemith 's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. (42 words)
The lilac in the dooryard is wearing fat buds, and visions of bouquets in jelly jars and Memorial Day parades dance in the head. (24 words)
Dutton’s home had a dooryard garden, typical of mid- nineteenth century New England village homes. (16 words)
Example sentences (3)
The lilac in the dooryard is wearing fat buds, and visions of bouquets in jelly jars and Memorial Day parades dance in the head.
Dutton’s home had a dooryard garden, typical of mid- nineteenth century New England village homes.
Paul Hindemith 's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
Common combinations with dooryard
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: