corralled
Example Sentences
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Corralled by burly soldiers — Americans, Germans, Qataris, British, Belgians, bristling with armor and backpacks or reclining inside a mine-resistant armored vehicle — they sport few belongings: a carry-on suitcase, a backpack, some plastic bags.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
Corralled on a smallholding outside Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa’s arid interior, 70 donkeys nosed through trash piles for food or flopped in the dirt, too debilitated to stand.
From National Geographic • Sep. 22, 2017
Corralled into the shadows between intermittent streetlights, or laid bare on the pyres of public refuse, they shrink from the high-beam gaze of the lumbering Audis struggling through narrow lanes.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2015
Corralled in a camp in Apaydin, they have offered little to the men fighting and dying inside Syria in its name.
From Time • Apr. 13, 2012
