paddock
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Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
At the 170-acre vineyard, horses and cows graze in a paddock; their dung is used for fertilizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I don't think we're allowed enough paddock passes in F1 to bring them all in," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
But there is a trend to move media centres away from the paddock.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
“This way, please,” said Professor Grubbly-Plank, and she strode off around the paddock where the Beauxbatons horses were shivering.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Not bad for a venue that has occupied its current site since 1853, land that was once used for police-force horse paddocks and is a short, happy walk from downtown Melbourne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Crops with higher flammability could be embedded among other paddocks planted with low-flammability crops.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
The dogs will patrol lambing paddocks, instead of trying to protect entire herds.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2023
The ducks follow a daily routine: In the morning, they go to the vineyards to prevent crop damage, and in the evening they return to their paddocks to peck at pellets of nutritious bird food.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023
The colts must have liked the mirror image; they had become inseparable in the Claiborne paddocks.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
A sound like "Goood!" came from the paddocked bull.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert
I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.
From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh
We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station—a shed standing out on the plain—in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch.
From Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
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