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How to use farmyard in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Farmyard means the area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings. Example: “"Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.”

Examples of farmyard by meaning

nounThe area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings.

  • "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
  • The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 24

More sentences with farmyard

  • That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry aubade
  • Throughout his toddlerhood Charlie dragged it along like Linus in Peanuts; towed it through muddy farmyards and chewing-gummy streets.2012, Charity Norman, After the Fall, London: Allen & Unwin, published 2013, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry chewing-gummy
  • Farmyards and sets of animals were sold in chip-boxes usually oval in shape and from two to 14 inches across.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 63. From the entry chipbox
  • The farmyard showed no utilitarian sights and gave forth no rustic smells; it had been laid over with close green turf like a bowling green.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 218. From the entry spick
  • Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard.1912, May Sinclair, The Three Bront. From the entry neighbourship
  • As these calves grew older they did not need to return to the farmyard for feeding as they were able to eat sufficient grass for themselves.1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry inch
  • Rambling along meadow paths hidden by long grasses he spied a farmyard, where, looking for all the world like a dolls’ house, stood a little hen coop.1984, Elizabeth P. Bowen, Coop, Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry dolls' house
  • Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217. From the entry waddle

Meaning of farmyard

  1. noun The area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings.

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Questions about farmyard in a sentence

How do you use farmyard in a sentence?
Farmyard is used as a noun. For example: “"Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.”
What is a short sentence with farmyard?
“"Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.”
What does farmyard mean?
Farmyard means the area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings.

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