paddock
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The question around the paddock these days is, how could anyone have missed Kimi?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The 2025 Ferrari could be difficult to handle but it possibly wasn't as hard to control as this mechanical bull, ridden in the Austin paddock by Charles Leclerc last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
At the 170-acre vineyard, horses and cows graze in a paddock; their dung is used for fertilizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
When at last they had reached a quiet stretch of ground a short way from the Beauxbatons horses’ paddock, Krum stopped in the shade of the trees and turned to face Harry.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
In 2020, Sam and Samantha Edwards embarked on a hobby involving a handful of ewes in pony paddocks near their home in west Dorset.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
The property is miles from the highway, accessible on two-lane roads lined by horse paddocks, white fences and canopies of gnarled live oaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
Visual proof came with the drive passing by green fields and paddocks, affording glimpses of some of the backlot's many equine neighbors.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
The ducks follow a daily routine: In the morning, they go to the vineyards to prevent crop damage, and in the evening they return to their paddocks to peck at pellets of nutritious bird food.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023
Looking more like a restaurant maitre d’ than a cowboy, Joel opened the gate between the two paddocks.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
A sound like "Goood!" came from the paddocked bull.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert
I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.
From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh
We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station—a shed standing out on the plain—in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch.
From Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
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