stockyard
Example Sentences
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He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
The Bull’s Head, which operated from the 1750s through the first quarter of the 19th century, was part of a sprawling complex that included a stockyard.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
When they make out their feed budgets, they count on their herds being able to forage, rather than eat in the stockyard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2015
To the intense irritation of Cornwall’s broker, they wound up having to accept rail cars filled with ethanol in some stockyard in Chicago—to make a sum of money that struck the broker as absurdly small.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
