How to Use courtyard in a Sentence

courtyard

noun
  • The apartment overlooks a courtyard.
  • Just beyond the glass door next to them was the courtyard and pool.
    Sean Clancy, arkansasonline.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Time is frozen on the face of the antique clocks positioned in the courtyards.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Their first meal together soon led to chatty walks in the courtyard.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Concrete steps from the driveway to the courtyard lead to the front door, which opens to a central foyer.
    oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The cozy two-story guest house sits closer to the street, across a turf courtyard with one of the home's four fireplaces.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The building includes a common roof deck and courtyard garden.
    The Week Staff, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
  • There’s an apartment building with a dog park and dog wash, a courtyard pool, bike storage and a fitness center.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In these formal adventures, her main obsession was the salita door in her house’s inner courtyard.
    Sarah Boxer, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • An old copper beech tree in a NewBridge courtyard served as her inspiration.
    Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • At the center of Cronos, there is an open-air courtyard with a lemon tree that artfully honors the home’s architectural roots.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Within 10 minutes of opening the gate, protesters moved into the courtyard with signs and whistles.
    Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Behind us, in the floor, is the entrance to her famous slide, a Carsten Höller work that takes you down a long, silvery tube and spits you out into the courtyard.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Reminiscing about his childhood sweetheart, the 45-year-old avionics technician talks about how the young pair would meet in a courtyard near his uncle’s house.
    Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Over there might be the edge of a courtyard or perhaps a gate.
    WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Cook said that street lights in the courtyard were off at the time of the late-night shooting.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Ruben was in the courtyard of the Alex Theater [in Glendale].
    Fred Bronson, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • The courtyard in front of the court building was full of TV crews ready to do live shots.
    David Bauder, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Outside, a carousel topped with an onion dome spins in the courtyard.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The entrance is now on Camelback, not through the courtyard off the parking lot.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Opt for an apres-ski concert at The Snow Lodge, based in its courtyard.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
  • A couple of weeks ago, a stray bullet hit a doctor in the pelvis in the courtyard.
    Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • To enter the home, a sunken courtyard brimming with greenery opens to the main front hall.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 July 2023
  • The room is 50 feet long and 20 feet wide and opens onto a courtyard with a staircase leading to the first floor.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Let Alex Perry show you this home, which is built around a courtyard.
    Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In the second half of the courtyard scene, Luffy and Zoro’s abilities are front and center.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There was one episode where Billy sees Matt kissing a man in the courtyard.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Have breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner among the olive trees and palms in the courtyard and patios.
    Michelle Duncan, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
  • There's nothing like a modern fountain to set the scene in a courtyard.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In a courtyard near the café wrecked by the missile, people placed candles and flowers.
    Hanna Arhirova The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023

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