front yard

noun

plural front yards

: an area in front of a house

We planted some bushes in the front yard.

Soon, our front yard was a safe haven for our scampering four-year-old, our porch a rustic idyll, our lawn a green and pleasant sward fit for Bambi to gambol on. Paradise.—

Michael Walsh

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The witness went to his front yard and saw a motorcycle lying on top of a woman next to his car while a man was picking up motorcycle parts. —

Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025 Outside, embers swirled like tiny red-orange tornadoes across his front yard, Auroux was approached by an KNBC reporter. —

Ray Sanchez, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025 Because of the hilly terrain, the main entrance was on the second floor, and it was originally reached by an external staircase rising from the front yard next door. —

Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025 Two tall, anemic palm trees and a reaching live oak stood within the narrow, gated front yard, and there were porches on the first and second floors. —

Ian Frisch, Curbed, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for front yard