stockyard
Example Sentences
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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
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
Grandin sees the plant layout as she speaks, adding the hand-cranked submarine doors gleaned from war movies, the pumps from every stockyard and farm she’s seen since she was a child.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2013
Some ranchers even grow fond of the animals they raise, no matter how abruptly these relationships may end at the stockyard gate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011
Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
