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Recent Examples of dooryard
These are often called dooryard violets and the Latin name is viola sororia.
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Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
But on a clear day after rain, the dooryards and the narrow streets are fragrant with summer lilacs; the overgrown grass by the river, where people of all backgrounds pause to rest, blows on the approach to a high, arcing bridge; and startling moments of bright, simple beauty emerge.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Bridal elms flank a door; an 80-foot dooryard elm shades a house.
—Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
Volunteers tend to the home's dooryard gardens, which offered sustenance and herbs for home remedies or dyes for clothing during Colonial times.
—Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 13 July 2017
Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
But on a clear day after rain, the dooryards and the narrow streets are fragrant with summer lilacs; the overgrown grass by the river, where people of all backgrounds pause to rest, blows on the approach to a high, arcing bridge; and startling moments of bright, simple beauty emerge.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Bridal elms flank a door; an 80-foot dooryard elm shades a house.
—Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
Volunteers tend to the home's dooryard gardens, which offered sustenance and herbs for home remedies or dyes for clothing during Colonial times.
—Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 13 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dooryard
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Get it on sale for less than $30 to get ready for spring cookouts and backyard barbecues all year.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
22 Jan. 2026
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There’s nothing wrong with being a role player on a mid-major basketball team and having kids want to be you in their backyard.—
Darren Cooper,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The garden project was created to educate at-risk teenagers and provide them with marketable skills.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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In addition to browsing and buying visual art, festival guests can experience live entertainment, browse food trucks, enjoy a beer and wine garden and find educational activities for children.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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An unusual structural failure recently caused a dramatic, sinkhole-like collapse in an historic English churchyard — revealing a 300-year-old family vault.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 Nov. 2025
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Installing pipework through the churchyard for the heat pumps, which are in a fenced enclosure nearby, was a painstaking process.—
Chris Baraniuk,
Wired News,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Dooryard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dooryard. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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