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How To Use stockyard In A Sentence

• There were also a few open spaces - like steel stockyards, railway marshalling yards and scrap yards with rusting car-hulks piled high like the lobster creels on Sorbaig pier.
• He had seemed to regard his wife's chamber as a tabernacle, enshrining that which he held most sacred, and would never enter it until he was cleansed from the grime and dust of the stockyard and cattle camp, and had laid aside the associations of his working day. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
• For others, isolated in Appalachia or the rural South, hard times during the Great Depression brought scores of Scotch-Irish to the factories of Detroit and Chicago, where they labored in the auto plants and stockyards.
• They bore into 20th century Chicago, taking us from the stinking stockyards to the polling places where precinct captains often accompanied voters into the booths.
• Later, in the afternoon, Joe wandered to the stockyard, waited till security had passed, then jumped the wall and made his way towards the public baths.
• Brand inspectors, who rooted out cattle thieves, tracked down stray steers, and kept the peace in the stockyards, had become the de facto law of the range by the time he joined their ranks in 1949.
• America's not an Iowa cornfield or the Chicago stockyards or the Rocky Mountains or Silicon Valley. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
• Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
• To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
• America's not an Iowa cornfield or the Chicago stockyards or the Rocky Mountains or Silicon Valley. FOLLOW THE SHARKS