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- noun Plural form of
farmyard .
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Examples
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The country was drier and more settled, but the cows, we saw, were all in farmyards, and we were afraid to risk going near them.
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918
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At Firdaws he drinks in the air: wet, warm earth and roses, honeysuckle, farmyards, cows as before, but up here he can smell fields of newly cut hay and fruit on the trees burnished by the summer he's missed.
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The deaths were blamed primarily on grizzlies pushing into inhabited areas, where bears get into trouble as they search out food in farmyards and from the big game herds also stalked by hunters.
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Many people would prefer chickens to be scratching, free-range, in farmyards.
Reasons to Crow About Ever-Bigger Chickens Matt Ridley 2011
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The deaths were blamed primarily on grizzlies pushing into inhabited areas, where bears get into trouble as they search out food in farmyards and from the big game herds also stalked by hunters.
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I also sketch in fast-food parking lots and farmyards.
Studio Shot in ImagineFX James Gurney 2010
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I also sketch in fast-food parking lots and farmyards.
Archive 2010-05-01 James Gurney 2010
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To the first problem, he put forward a compromise: the foxes should continue to steal, but instead of raiding a supermarket, Coen proposed they should pilfer the farmyards of their tormentors instead.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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There are other makeshift detention facilities in places like rented farmyards and guesthouses that are better guarded.
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It was a wooden patten, once commonplace domestic equipment in most farmyards.
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