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

In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2020

He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

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

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