as in garage sale
a sale of used household and personal items
there are signs up all over town advertising yard sales
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Recent Examples of yard sale
Some of her fondest memories as a child involved tagging along to yard sales with her grandparents and finding random gems tucked away in their home.
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Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
Estate sales, yard sales, and connections with rag houses form the backbone of Low Timers’ vintage ecosystem.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Emerick first connected with them at a yard sale out front.
—Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
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Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
Estate sales, yard sales, and connections with rag houses form the backbone of Low Timers’ vintage ecosystem.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Emerick first connected with them at a yard sale out front.
—Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yard sale
garage sale
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Facebook Marketplace, the social media giant's digital equivalent of a garage sale, has gained a reputation for the eclectic items people hawk on the platform – furniture, cars, clothes, even aircraft.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
19 Dec. 2025
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An estimated 165,000 garage sales take place across the U.S. every week, according to figures published by USA Today.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Yard sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yard%20sale. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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