front yard
noun
plural front yards
: an area in front of a house
We planted some bushes in the front yard.
Soon, our front yard was a safe haven for our scampering four-year-old, our porch a rustic idyll, our lawn a green and pleasant sward fit for Bambi to gambol on. Paradise.—
Michael Walsh
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Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into John O’Keefe, her Boston police boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed, in the early snowy morning of Jan. 29, 2022.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
During the early afternoon hours of June 24, 2002, 15-year-old Kara was watering plants and bushes in the front yard of her best friend’s house in West Columbia, S.C., when a Pontiac Trans-Am pulled into the driveway.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 24 June 2025
Responding deputies found Lucas in the front yard of a nearby home at 11535 SW 224th St., about half a mile from the convenience store, and shot several times.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
The caller reported finding a cellphone, cellphone charger and cable buried in his front yard, according to a spokesperson.
—Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
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Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
During the early afternoon hours of June 24, 2002, 15-year-old Kara was watering plants and bushes in the front yard of her best friend’s house in West Columbia, S.C., when a Pontiac Trans-Am pulled into the driveway.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 24 June 2025
Responding deputies found Lucas in the front yard of a nearby home at 11535 SW 224th St., about half a mile from the convenience store, and shot several times.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
The caller reported finding a cellphone, cellphone charger and cable buried in his front yard, according to a spokesperson.
—Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for front yard
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“Front yard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/front%20yard. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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