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Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.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
But, if there's one guy that I would choose on this paddock in terms of resilience and determination, that would be George.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The Vienna native had already made a fortune as a tech investor before he set foot on a Formula One paddock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The atmosphere of the stables and the breath of the bluegrass paddock revived in her memory and lingered in her nostrils.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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
That's because "they're staying where the food is," she says, out in the paddocks.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Hence, these findings should be tested using experimental burns of crops in paddocks.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 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
And he saw the adversary stealing the fruits of his master’s fields and paddocks, carrying off chickens and leading goats by ropes.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.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
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
I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.
From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh
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