Sentence examples for modest backyard from inspiring English sources

"Here's the view from my backyard," he said, revealing a live feed of a tidy and modest backyard.

I attacked the weeds in our modest backyard, wielded screwdrivers and pliers to keep the house in working order, and navigated pushy elbows at the farmers' market.

From dressage rings with mirrored walls and chandeliers to the most modest backyard paddocks on an acre or two, horses dot the landscape.

After arriving in my hometown late one night, the three of us found ourselves on Dad's back porch the next morning, looking out over the rather modest backyard.

Two plants in my modest backyard plot in Brooklyn grew very long shoots this season, and I never got around to pruning.

In the modest backyard of Rosemarie Morgan's 1890-era house, about a half-mile from Yale University, there is a small Buddha, azalea and forsythia, Japanese cherry and plum trees, and an Amish-made chicken coop with five residents — four who lay eggs and Gloria, who is barren but one heck of a watchdog.

Some homes have modest backyards and others have small front yards, but few have both.

Less exotic but arguably much bolder than Jacobsen's interwar project, the Orestad development deliberately mixes housing — mainly blocks of flats and compact brick single-family homes with modest backyards — with offices and stores, including the largest mall in Scandinavia.

Detached single-family Tudors, ranches and Capes, built on the sites of former farms and summer resorts and typically made of brick, they have modest backyards and well-tended lawns, and are close to the street.

A five-minute trot off the main highway, past modest backyards with garlands of dripping clothes, took us to Art Space, where modern paintings and sculptures are the main attraction and the wine is almost an afterthought.

Two weeks later, on Oct. 14, Mr. Temeczko died, apparently after a heart attack as he worked in the backyard of his modest two-story stucco house.