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Definition of "front-yard" [front-yard]

  • A river, about 193 km (120 mi) long, of southern Wyoming flowing north and west to the North Platte River.

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "front-yard" in a sentence
  • "With sweaty hands and nerves that shook like leaves, I met the pioneer of aerobics in the front-yard of her cottage in Laurel Springs."
  • "She's the housewife in the neighborhood with the front-yard graveyard and a maze that trick-or-treaters have to walk through to get their candy, teases Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell), who in real life plans to wear his character's muscle-bound Spider-Man costume to a party being thrown at the home of his TV boyfriend, Eric Stonestreet (Cameron)."
  • "This feels a little odd but worked just fine in my front-yard casting tests."