Sentence examples for and a yard of from inspiring English sources
"Give him a ball and a yard of grass," Brian Clough said, "and he was an artist – a Picasso of our game".
(The others are Venus Observed [1949; autumn], The Dark Is Light Enough [1954; winter], and A Yard of Sun [1970 summerr].) The plot is set in motion by the disappearance of the town's rag-and-bone man.
The male foreigners were outnumbered by Chinese of both genders looking on in noisy amazement and occasionally throwing a dart and drinking a yard of beer.
But Beckham strongarms past him and wins a yard of space.
This came when Tom Ince powered into the Wigan area, dropped a shoulder, and created a yard of space.
The annual replastering had more than doubled the width of the walls and added a yard of mud to the roof.
So if you're vertically challenged and you've got like a yard of cord bouncing around, this might be a good solution for you.
He injected a yard of pace and no little vision into the centre of the park.
Burress caught a pass for 19 yards and dragged two defenders to within a yard of the end zone to set up the game's first touchdown.
The striker made himself a yard of space and swept an emphatic finish into the far corner.
"If I had a yard of tulle and 20 more feathers, it would have been explosive," she laments.
