How to Use courtyard in a Sentence

courtyard

noun

• The apartment overlooks a courtyard.
• Light rain falls as models in tight shorts, billowy dresses and gauzy blouses walk along the courtyard’s red runway.
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Outside are lawns, gardens, mature trees, a stone courtyard, a greenhouse, and a four-bay carriage house with apartments.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 30 Oct. 2022
• Dasha entered the courtyard to her fans surrounding the stage, excited to be inches away from the country-singing pop star.
  — Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
• The current 167-room castle is built from granite in two wings arranged around a central courtyard.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• There’s also a sweet interior courtyard where most guests take their breakfast on sunny mornings.
  — Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2022
• Khusro’s hut, which surrounds a small courtyard and herb garden, was sprawling by local village standards.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• Hidden away from the busy streets outside, the club level of the house features a restaurant, with lounge seating spilling out into the courtyard bar.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Witherspoon’s favorite, a dog and cat on a courtyard gate, serves as a gathering spot for family photos.
  — ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2022
• Walk through the historic city center, admiring its colorful courtyards and picturesque streets.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2024
• Next to the monastery sits a second building with four rooms, likely around a courtyard – possibly the home of an abbot or even a bishop in the early church.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
• Saturday’s demonstration took place in an outdoor courtyard within the sprawling complex that is housing the convention.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
• Saidmurod invited us to sit on a dais in his inner courtyard, in the shade of pomegranate trees and grapevines, and told us about his fabrics, such as the atlas cloth, a satin weave, with a silk warp and weft, that his mother had taught him to make.
  — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Outside one of two hospitals still open in Nabatieh, nestled on a hill overlooking part of the city, ambulance crews sat outside the hospital courtyard, smoking and drinking coffee.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024