stockyard
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Bull’s Head, which operated from the 1750s through the first quarter of the 19th century, was part of a sprawling complex that included a stockyard.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2016
She had a large pleasant nose that sniffed the air at irregular intervals like a heifer catching the scent of blood in the stockyard.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
