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

That’s how he started as a photography-obsessed teenager growing up near a stockyard in Omaha, and decades later it’s where he once again finds himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2021

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

Grandin sees the plant layout as she speaks, adding the hand-cranked submarine doors gleaned from war movies, the pumps from every stockyard and farm she’s seen since she was a child.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013

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