Sentence examples for backyard line from inspiring English sources

She doesn't get out there much, though she does hang her laundry on a backyard line.

They live in a pastel, pastoral gated compound, Regent Place, where two-story houses with barbecues in the backyard line a tree-shaded main lane.

Your dryer, for example, is one of the home's biggest energy hogs, so putting clothes on a backyard line every once in a while would be reflected in your bill, and would give your clothes a fresh-air smell.

Before they take in the laundry from backyard lines, they first shake out the asbestos.

The breeder's noisy backyard was lined with row after row of roosters tethered to shelters made of tin or chicken wire, said John Goodwin, director of animal cruelty policy for the Humane Society of the United States.

In the same vein, a local California law against hanging cloths on backyard laundry lines was ruled unconstitutional in 1896 (Yick Wo) because, though purportedly race-neutral, it targeted Chinese immigrants.

Wall Street is in your backyard, where electrical lines give you light for your house: those energy companies raise money by selling bonds through the public markets.

The view, through the right-side windows, was one of endless neat, tight private houses, their oval backyard swimming pools lined up like so many blue fingernails.

Mockingbirds swoop from fence to wire down the long line of backyards in this part of town, and the small, gray bird nesting in an angle of my porch-roof has bedded down with her eggs for the night.

To appease NIMBYs (those who reflexively say "not in my backyard") some of the lines may have to be buried, at further great expense: perhaps 25 times the cost of stringing the cables on pylons.

He speaks of the "dreamers" in Moscow who long to regain their old territories.For the Soviet government and its tsarist predecessors (Tashkent was captured by the tsar's army in 1865) Central Asia was the Muslim south, a backyard (and a front-line against British mischief from India).