stockyard
Example Sentences
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The old farming dynasties are selling up their land to multinational conglomerates, and the stockyard jobs are gone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
That’s how he started as a photography-obsessed teenager growing up near a stockyard in Omaha, and decades later it’s where he once again finds himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2021
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
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
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
