COURTYARD in a Sentence

Learn COURTYARD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
78 example sentences for COURTYARD, such as:
1. The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by stables.
2. Their task was to carry the maize from the field to our courtyard.
3. Two hours later the carts were standing in the courtyard of the Bogucharovo house.
4. Anatole followed the maid into the courtyard, turned the corner, and ran up into the porch.
5. Only when the equipage had entered the courtyard did it stand revealed as a light spring britchka.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COURTYARD
courtyard
 n.  an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  Entering the courtyard, the britchka halted before a moderate-sized mansion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Indeed, had any one, on a slushy winter's morning, glanced from a window into the said courtyard, he would have seen Plushkin's servitors performing saltatory feats worthy of the most vigorous of stage-dancers.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  The britchka bounded over the cobblestones, and at length turned into the hostelry's courtyard, where the travellers were met by Petrushka.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  Entering a mean, dirty courtyard covered with glass, they passed thence into a cellar where a number of customers were seated around small wooden tables.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  Only when the equipage had entered the courtyard did it stand revealed as a light spring britchka.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
6  "It has been rather too much of a good thing," remarked Chichikov as the vehicle issued from the courtyard.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  Seizing his cap, and casting all ceremony to the winds, he fled from the house, and rushed through the courtyard.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  Yet far better would it have been for them if they had been clad in plain striped smocks, and running about the courtyard like peasant children.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  There drove into the courtyard of his little house a carriage with seats for two, with four horses harnessed abreast.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  The hospital was in a brick building with some of the window frames and panes broken and a courtyard surrounded by the remains of a wooden fence that had been pulled to pieces.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
11  Late one evening the Rostovs' four sleighs drove into Marya Dmitrievna's courtyard in the old Konyusheny street.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI
12  "Come into the courtyard or you'll be seen; she'll come out directly," said she.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII
13  Anatole followed the maid into the courtyard, turned the corner, and ran up into the porch.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII
14  Two hours later the carts were standing in the courtyard of the Bogucharovo house.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIV
15  The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
2  The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by stables.
3  Their task was to carry the maize from the field to our courtyard.