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

He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 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

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