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yard sale

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Definition of yard sale

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Synonyms for yard sale

Synonyms

garage sale, tag sale

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Examples of yard sale in a Sentence

there are signs up all over town advertising yard sales

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Prepare early for the Havre de Grace community wide yard sale, Sept. 14 (rain date Sept. 15) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details at 410-939-2100 or 410-939-6562. Ronald Browning, baltimoresun.com, "Havre de Grace: Annual art show is this weekend," 16 Aug. 2019 VALLEY CENTER Yard sale to benefit scholarship program The Miss Valley Center Pageant hosts its annual yard sale, which benefits the scholarship fund, from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27 and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 28. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, "North County School News, July 18," 18 July 2019 Look into your china hutch for a treasured heirloom, or scoop up a few colorful and cheap ones from a yard sale. Sarah Shelton, Good Housekeeping, "10 Cheap and Cheerful Ways to Update Your Kitchen," 30 May 2019 Henderson is a picker, part of an invisible corps of tastemakers who haunt auctions, yard sales, estate sales, church sales and art shows. Travis Deshong, Washington Post, "Meet the pickers who helped you furnish your home," 10 July 2019 Unable to secure from the city a special parade event permit that year, the Center held a pride event which, by some accounts, included a charity yard sale, potluck dinner and defiant unofficial march. San Diego Union-Tribune, "From the Archives: San Diego Pride has a long history," 28 June 2019 Exantus is a generalist, scouring yard sales for bargains on old appliances and leftover construction supplies. Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, "Downstream," 10 June 2019 Big yard sale: Experience The Great Big Yard Sale June 20 and 21 on the beautiful lawns of the Strongsville Historic Village, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Shirley Macfarland, cleveland.com, "The ribs will soon be grilling at City Club’s Rib Burnoff: Strong Points," 6 June 2019 Or perhaps half-blind: My friend Tricia will pick up single boots at yard sales and wear them together; my friend Soo thinks nothing of a pink Indian dress with a Oaxacan skull necklace. Andrew Sean Greer, Vogue, "More Is More: Novelist Andrew Sean Greer on the Virtues of Questionable Taste," 16 Apr. 2019

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First Known Use of yard sale

1972, in the meaning defined above

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