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

The price of the grilled rib-eye might have you choking, but the $90 stockyard — er, platter — of blushing beef, sliced for easy feasting, could easily feed a bunkhouse.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

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

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