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
Instead of booths the size of stockyard stalls, there were wide-open prairies of exhibition space on all three floors.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 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
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
