Read full poem →General Olfices, 713 Mulberry—Phone 2108 Wal.—2 Big Yards~8 1-2 Acres of Floor Space
Dictionary Entry
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. yardsaway yardswide yardslong yardsyards hundredyards fiftyyards twentyyards cubic
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Poetry examples for “yards”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It was a dozen yards away from the aeroplane and about the same from the
nearest line of great bushy trees. Immediately the flame sprang up,
Read full poem →Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily
Soft-scented in the air for yards around;
Read full poem →During this time I picked up rags in the streets and
worked in tobacco factories and brick-yards. My nine-
teenth year found me a distiller in one of the largest
Read full poem →State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts,
magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful build-
ings; - And
Read full poem →Travels my eye with equal ease and delight:
And scarce could my body leap four yards.
Read full poem →sight,
Fifty yards off, I could not tell how much
Of the strange tripod was a man. His body,
Read full poem →Though scarce this Spring could my body leap
four yards.
Read full poem →I've known a Heaven, like a Tent --
To wrap its shining Yards --
Pluck up its stakes, and disappear --
Read full poem →The ships swing about,
The yards are all hoisted,
The sails flutter out.