as in garage sale
a sale of used household and personal items
there are signs up all over town advertising yard sales
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Recent Examples of yard sale
What began nearly 50 years ago with humble beginnings as a parking lot yard sale has grown into a thriving marketplace with dozens of vendors, local produce, and nostalgic finds.
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
Is there anyone who hasn’t daydreamed of stumbling upon some lost and valuable find—a hoard of Roman coins sitting inches beneath our feet, a Fabergé egg nestling among a pile of junk at a yard sale, a lost canvas masterpiece hanging unnoticed on the wall of a charity store?
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024
To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Zepeda bought the fabric stars at a yard sale years ago.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 26 Sep. 2024
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
Is there anyone who hasn’t daydreamed of stumbling upon some lost and valuable find—a hoard of Roman coins sitting inches beneath our feet, a Fabergé egg nestling among a pile of junk at a yard sale, a lost canvas masterpiece hanging unnoticed on the wall of a charity store?
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024
To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Zepeda bought the fabric stars at a yard sale years ago.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yard sale
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See if someone in your network lives there, or strike up conversations at parks, garage sales, or local events.—
Berit Thorkelson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Apr. 2025
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Another local man remembers hosting a garage sale at his house, and finding that Kale, wearing a zoot suit and a fedora, had wandered into their laundry room and was digging through his family’s dirty clothes.—
Guthrie Scrimgeour,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Yard sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yard%20sale. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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