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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Letting her front yard in a historic, urban Birmingham, Ala., neighborhood go wild with more-than-foot-high native roses, irises, azalea saplings, tiger lilies, columbines, rose campions and daisy fleabanes, in violation of a local ordinance.
—USA Today, 16 May 2025
What To Know Dinh was arrested after police responded to an early morning call about a man with a knife in the front yard of Dinh's family home.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
That last call resulted in a message recording the chaotic scene surrounding the discovery of O’Keefe’s body in the snow on the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in Canton.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
There was poison ivy in the front yard, the sidewalk had cracks, and there was garbage everywhere.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
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USA Today, 16 May 2025
What To Know Dinh was arrested after police responded to an early morning call about a man with a knife in the front yard of Dinh's family home.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
That last call resulted in a message recording the chaotic scene surrounding the discovery of O’Keefe’s body in the snow on the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in Canton.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
There was poison ivy in the front yard, the sidewalk had cracks, and there was garbage everywhere.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 25 Apr. 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 21 May. 2025.
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