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How to use the word BACKYARD in a Sentence?

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Everybody always sort of focuses in on the big stuff — big birds and mammals and things like that. But this is an insect world. … We’re just living on it, it is really important to have that sort of appreciation. And one of the nice things about insects is that there is so much diversity for you to appreciate, just in your backyard.

Floyd Shockley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congresswoman Slotkin pays market rate rent for her home in Lansing, just like millions of tenants in Michigan, and previous attempts to twist the facts have failed with other outlets for that reason, this is nothing more than an attempt by Tom Barrett's weak campaign to distract from his five votes to block thousands of jobs at a new GM plant in his own backyard, his opposition to the bipartisan CHIPS Act and his failed attempt to cover up his dangerous position to ban all abortions in Michigan, even in instances of rape or incest.

Lynsey Mukomel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think that would be cool, it would be a pretty cool sendoff at Madison Square Garden. It’s pretty much in my backyard. I trained up in Renzo’s for so many years, it would be a pretty cool sendoff.

Frankie Edgar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what James Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard.

Bryan Holler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether you are watching in a public space or in a fenced-in backyard, [it’s] better safe than sorry.

Catherine Dennig

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You can get sick from touching your backyard poultry or anything in their environment and then touching your mouth or food and swallowing salmonella germs.

The CDC

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Jesus said love your neighbor as yourself. Right now, these are United States neighbors, they're literally showing up in United States backyard.

Pastor Phil Metzger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You cannot stand up to Putin and have a little Putin-ism in your own backyard.

Al Sharpton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

**(C)(P) REGGAE HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY. IT IS A REGGAE EDUCATION FOR A HEALING OF THE NATIONS. I CREATED IT IN MY 1962 TRENCH TOWN BACKYARD AND OWNS EXCLUSIVELY THE COPYRIGHTS FOR ITS CREATION.REGGAE-ORIGIN OF THE WORD AND INCORPORATION INTO MUSIC. SEE THE USA COPYRIGHTS OFFICE.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

She left her purebred German shepherd in a fenced backyard with water, food, outbuilding, and it was an unseasonably beautiful day here in Parsons, about 73 degrees outside. She went to lay down, caught some shut-eye, woke up, went outside and she found the carcass of her beautiful little puppy, the head had been severed, the head has not yet been recovered. And also we found the muzzle of the animal.

Parsons Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I called 311 and she thought I was crazy, she thought I was crazy. She paused for a long minute. I said, 'Ma’am, I am not drinking. I have not had any drugs. I have Zebras in my backyard walking on the train tracks. I just wanted to know what service could come out because I didn’t want them to get hit and she paused for a long time and then said, 'Okay, here's the number.

Reed Curling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're just unbelievable young ladies who should be playing in the backyard, playing on the swing set, playing with their friends, and here they’re in a very bad situation for doing nothing more than playing soccer.

Robert McCreary

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

During the Camp Fire, I looked across at guys who live in Paradise, not knowing if their house is there, camp Fire's completely different when you are fighting a fire in your own community. We are used to seeing destruction, but when Camp Fire's in your own backyard, Camp Fire makes such a significant impact.

Jesse Alexander

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The US's just this over abundance of guns and the fact that we no longer have that argument or fist fight in the backyard anymore, the US's an argument that leads directly to a handgun, something that we haven't seen in a long time.

Patrick Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The US's so easy to get a gun, the US's just this over abundance of guns and the fact that we no longer have that argument or fist fight in the backyard anymore.

Birmingham Officer Truman Fitzgerald

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Will I then find another way to exercise ? the answer is, for most people, probably no. ... They still have some control of being able to( decide),' Hey, I can still go for a walk or I can still go exercise in my backyard.'.

Timothy Baghurst

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have peoples' hats on my front porch, and I have frames from people's houses and little things like caulk from somebody working on something, i have half of someone's car seat in my backyard.

Alicia Jossey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s a unique opportunity because I’ve never won a U.S. Open. It’s in my backyard. I have a chance to prepare properly, and I wanted to put in the right work, so I’ve kind of shut off all the noise. I’ve shut off my phone. I’ve shut off a lot of the other stuff to where I can kind of focus in on this week.

Phil Mickelson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Piers Morgan called the archbishop and Piers Morgan just said, look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but Piers Morgan want Piers Morgan union between Piers Morgan, so the vows that Piers Morgan have framed in Piers Morgan room are just the two of us in Piers Morgan backyard with the archbishop of Canterbury.

The Duchess of Sussex

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No tiger belongs in a backyard or basement, the only reason that people have tigers as pets is to try to show off to others.

Carole Baskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We needed a backyard.

Becky Trout

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That seems to be the moment in the podcast series that most people have been just completely shaken, this may be the piece of evidence that points to the fact that Kristin was buried in that backyard or that her belongings were buried in that backyard.

Paul Flores

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There is no need to look at Venezuela for examples of why socialism doesn't work, they're in our own backyard.

Thomas Filingeri

added by strikerino
3 years ago

He's had that for a long time, sometimes he's had it in his driveway. Sometimes he had it in his backyard.

Steve Schmoldt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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