How To Use Stockyard In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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America's not an Iowa cornfield or the Chicago stockyards or the Rocky Mountains or Silicon Valley.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
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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.
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America's not an Iowa cornfield or the Chicago stockyards or the Rocky Mountains or Silicon Valley.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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This agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture began court proceedings and forced meatpackers to divest themselves of stockyards, railroads, cattle-loan companies, and similar businesses.
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The waste produced by industrial concentrations of animals in stockyards and factory farms continues to strain sewage facilities.
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A huge stockyard for which they have a vested financial interest in corraling with space based barbed wire and harvesting on behalf of their own greedy appetites.
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The plant would be built in the city's stockyards area and eventually employ about 1,000 people.
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My uncle would go to the auction over at Logan County Stockyards on the edge of Booneville and get a couple of shoats (young just-weaned hogs).
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One panel shows cattle in the Chicago stockyards; in another a molten splash indicates steel mills.
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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.
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She insists on walking further to show her mother the flowering bush rata and on the return journey they meet a mob of fat lambs being driven to the stockyards nearby by men and dogs.
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His bird's eye views included the Grand Canyon and other mountain locales, the cities of Washington, D.C. and San Jose and Berkeley, California, as well as the business sections and stockyards of Kansas City, Missouri.
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Upton Sinclair exposed the stomach-churning conditions of the Chicago stockyards in his 1905 novel The Jungle.
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We've been busting our humps schlepping our out-of-town visitors to tattoo parlours and stockyards.
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She lost her stockyards and her farm as a result.
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It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards.
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All the other men made it back to Drogheda homestead ahead of the storm, turned their mounts into the stockyard and headed for either the big house or the jackaroo barracks.
The Thorn Birds
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The automobile assembly plants in Detroit, the flour mills in Minneapolis, and the stockyards in Chicago were all urban institutions.
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For that matter, if it were given me to choose between being compelled to live in Molokai for the rest of my life, or in the East End of London, the East Side of New York, or the Stockyards of Chicago, I would select Molokai without debate.
Chapter 7
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An extensive network of German agents in the United States injected horses, mules, and cattle with glanders and anthrax at the stockyards just before the animals' departure to the European theater.
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Free-range: The term applied to feed animals such as cows, chickens, or pigs that were not raised exclusively in a stockyard or feedlot, but rather allowed to roam free on the range or in the pasture.
The UltraMetabolism Cookbook
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A total of 192 heifer calves (three trials) were purchased during a 2-to 3-wk period from local stockyards.
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So the collages have an antiquated look, and the stories they tell are most often of yesterday's Chicago, with its stockyards and steel mills, amusement parks and warehouses, machine politics and graft.
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She ended up having lunch with Scarlett while the rest of the men headed for the stockyard to check on the arrival of cattle being brought in for the trail drive.
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The cattle pens in the south Omaha stockyards are empty.
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However, in the stockyard the task is more complex.
