Sentence examples for closed courtyard from inspiring English sources

As the conversation came to a close, Shrimati's mother Kamla led her visitors into a closed courtyard in the back of the house where she wanted her picture taken away from the neighbors' prying eyes.

But in reality, the facade was only one side of a closed courtyard and the original entrance was from a vestibule.

A 123-ton steel sculpture by Richard Serra was deposited in its yard last fall, drawing some notice, but a retaining wall and gate will eventually shelter it within a closed courtyard.

Patio F is on a terrace at the same level as Patios D and E. The patio is a closed courtyard formed by 5 structures on the west and south sides, while the other two sides are formed by the retaining walls of Patios A and C. The structures were residential buildings built upon low platforms, with the principal structure on the south side of the patio.

Most Russians grew up in dense housing blocks, where children ran wild in closed central courtyards.

On this day in July residents gathered along closed-in courtyards, keeping an eye out for famous faces milling around.

Another corner, and I'd wind up in the too-quiet Armenian Quarter, whose closed-off courtyards allegedly held networks of secret streets I'd never penetrate.

It was suggested that closed, cross ventilated courtyards be embedded to achieve indoor thermal comfort and avoid excessive humidity in hot-humid climates.

m of courtyard – closed in 2002.

And one of the reasons they did was that the rural gentry then controlling Parliament decided that killing games in small, closed, city places — cellars, courtyards, back alleys — were bad for poor people, exciting their basest instincts and encouraging them to lives of drink, gambling, violence, and all manner of Dickensian dissipation.

In shot after shot, made through windows and doors, the director suggests a society under surveillance, shunting hurts and desires into ever-deeper recesses, from the street to the back office, from the courtyard to the closed doors of home to the depths of mind revealed in dreams (and he films a superb one).