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Examples of yard sale in a Sentence
there are signs up all over town advertising yard sales
Recent Examples on the Web
Remember this before your next yard sale trip: Bed bugs can hide in furniture.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
The Renfroe’s get most of their items from estate sales, but will shop yard sales, thrift stores and other random places in search of the right pieces for their booths.
—Vanessa Infanzon, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
Audience members use an item plucked from a junk drawer to gain entry to the space, and that item can then be bartered for shells, corn husks, trinkets and yard sale detritus.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
Vincent’s purchase came after years of perusing yard sales and thrift stores with her mother.
—Ben Finley, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
One of the victims was stabbed near a thrift store, two were stabbed at a yard sale on Colie Drive behind the shopping plaza and the fourth victim was found nearby.
—Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
Village-wide yard sale: Chagrin Falls is holding its annual village-wide yard sale 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23.
—Joan Rusek, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
Her connection to the filming is someone who turned out to be tied to the movie bought a chain from a yard sale her father, Dell Kelson, was having.
—Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
Re-gifting is as common for us as shopping at yard sales and thrift stores.
—Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1972, in the meaning defined above
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“Yard sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yard%20sale. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
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