fodder

Example Sentences

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They banked almost 500,000 seeds from 19 species, including relatives of lettuce, parsnip, strawberry, radish, quinoa, blackberry, alfalfa and several species used as fodder crops for livestock.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

The novel partnership between students and police to break open a decades-old murder case, with a love triangle at its center, was irresistible fodder for the media’s true-crime boom.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Still, the Epstein files might represent a unique bonanza as conspiracy fodder goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

What are negotiation tactics for one man is fodder for war to others — especially if one or both sides are spoiling for a fight.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Late in the afternoon, he tapped on the side of the fodder house, and then opened the door, and put part of the Christmas dinner—cooked bacon, hoecake, fried pork and roasted yams—inside on the floor.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry