"They want to drive into a private garage, and they want to be able to go directly from the house to a private fenced-in backyard."

He thinks Arizona is like an old fenced-in backyard, only bigger.

Sprawl tends to replace public spaces with private spaces such as fenced-in backyards.

Tyler and Dawn trotted through on their way out to the fenced-in backyard.

She steps through the kitchen to her tiny, fenced-in backyard, a stone's throw from the alleys of drug dealers.

She said that, since her house is isolated, she doesn't permit her children to roam, only to play in the fenced-in backyard.

About his life as a cabby with a fenced-in suburban backyard, he acknowledges: "I think this must be the limitations for me now."

In other words, it's not enough that you think your fenced-in backyard is private if society as a whole would find it unreasonable to think so.

The dog wouldn't settle down, so they put it out in the fenced-in backyard, and showered me with apologies about which I was quite gracious.

They went either to the leafy, fenced-in backyard, where the dog wandered among them, or to the front lawn, calling the families on cellphones.