Sentence examples for patch of yard from inspiring English sources

More than anything we wanted a house, a patch of yard and maybe a tree or two, but we couldn't get a loan big enough.

In a mangy patch of yard, there appeared to be a heap of two-by-fours, which revealed themselves, upon investigation, to be the remains of an outhouse that must have been blown down in a storm.

That is easier said than done in a place where even residents of modest means have long viewed a patch of yard and sky, a lemon tree and maybe even a swimming pool as all but a birthright, and the fight over Newhall Ranch is proof positive of how hard it will be to change the paradigm.

Spread a handful of chia seeds evenly over a small patch of yard in a shaded area.

A picture window showed a patch of front yard large enough to accommodate a single agave plant.

House-proud for the first time in her life, she immediately planted corn, pumpkins and tomatoes on a patch of her yard.

The eggplants in the small corner patch of the front yard have begun to put out purple and yellow flowers, hanging down like little lanterns.

The stroller was intact, its wheel still lying in a patch of marigolds several yards back.

Then came the test result: the level of radioactive cesium in a patch of dirt just yards from where his 11-year-old son, Koshiro, played baseball was equal to those in some contaminated areas around Chernobyl.

The Metro Jackson brochure I was consulting said that the district included over 690 listings in the National Register of Historic Places, boasting a mix of antebellum, Creole, Queen Anne, shotgun and bungalow cottages, but what Sam and I first see is a black slum of substandard housing, chain-link fences, weed-filled patches of front yards and badly sagging front porches.

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