dooryard

Definitions

Examples

• If we find him there as Rutter said, you can gamble that trouble has camped in our dooryard for a lengthy stay.

• The dooryard was covered with a heavy sod and the ancient flower beds had run wild with weeds.

• But Brindle tarried behind and foraged for her supper by nibbling the grass from the overgrown dooryard.

• In what once had been the dooryard there were a few straggling clumps of bushes, and thistles and burdocks grew in rank profusion.

• Then came the German irises, like soldiers on parade, around the pool, and the bright lemon lilies in the shady dooryard.