Synonym: confine, court, enclosure, pen. Similar words: backyard, hard, card, beard, award, guard, board, pardon. Meaning: [jɑrd /jɑːd] n. 1. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride 2. the enclosed land around a house or other building 3. a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) 4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines 5. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) 6. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) 7. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen 8. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 9. a tract of land where logs are accumulated.
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121. After years of close work, she could hardly see a thing if it was over a yard away.
122. One end of the yard had been fenced off for the chickens.
123. The boys were out in the yard, just fooling around.
124. This is the patio, so - called it's really just the back yard.
125. Since they set up a builder's yard next door, our house has depreciated in value.
126. I got on the phone to Inspector Joplin at Scotland Yard.
127. We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
128. You can go out to play as long as you stay in the back yard.
129. Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.
130. They found Trish sitting on the cobbles of the stable yard.
131. Americans would probably react differently to the war if it was in their own back yard.
132. Our yard is only small, and has the added disadvantage of facing north.
133. All the soldiers were marshaled together in the yard, ready to march away.
134. You can't place to a yard by means of shoulder and arm energy alone.
135. We sat in the yard feasting on barbecued chicken and beer.
136. At the very back of the yard, several feet from Lenny, was a wooden shack.
137. The quarterback was sacked on the 45 yard line, and it was first down for the other team.
138. Her mother had mentioned how colorful the yard was, now that spring had arrived.
139. Information is collected through the likes of the FBI, CIA, and Scotland Yard.
140. You can still buy cloth by the yard in this country.
141. We got home and went sledding on the small hill in our back yard.
142. The boys were knocking a ball around in the back yard.
143. The carpet of leaves in my yard became more and more noticeable.
144. Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.
145. A high wall separated our back yard from the playing field.
146. I took the car on a one-way trip to the wrecker's yard .
147. He dug a hole in our yard on Edgerton Avenue to plant a maple tree when I was born.
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148. Scotland Yard have/has been called in to investigate the murder.
149. All the actors were marshaled together in the yard, ready to go away.
150. The child drew out the elastic until it measured a yard.
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