stockyard
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
For his 1906 book, “The Jungle,” Sinclair spent seven weeks working in a meatpacking plant in a Chicago stockyard.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
It was here, in what Chicagoans called a “streetcar” suburb, that stockyard supervisors chose to settle, as did officials of companies headquartered in the skyscrapers of the Loop.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
