How to Use stockyard in a Sentence

stockyard

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  • Pipeline parts arrive daily via train and then are trucked to a stockyard at the edge of town.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Back then, her stepfather bought live hogs from the stockyard and slaughtered and butchered them himself.
    — Bob Carlton, AL.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Until Kansas City’s famed stockyards closed down in 1991, the city was pretty much wall-to-wall cows and pigs, few of whom were housebroken.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Like the stockyards and steel mills that once served as the city’s economic anchor, the exchanges export their products and services throughout the world.
    — Ayla Jean Yackley, WIRED, 25 Sep. 1998
  • Masbate City is a former colonial port that had cattle stockyards near its docks until the 1970s.
    — Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Bundles of steel pipe being lifted at a stockyard on the outskirts of Shanghai on Thursday.
    — WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • The City of Big Shoulders, of stockyards and steel, increasingly caters to people who work on their laptops instead of with their hands.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The Thursday sale the week before the Fourth of July brought a thousand cattle to the stockyards, Hinton said, at a time of year when a few hundred cattle at a sale is respectable.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 July 2017
  • Ramirez made the 20-minute trip over to Perry Speegle’s house, loaded his passengers and drove to the company’s stockyard to pick up sheetrock for the Winnemucca job.
    — Pat Caldwell, idahostatesman, 10 July 2017
  • Memories of the stockyards may be sobering, but a visit to The Plant shows inspiration in action.
    — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The Great Flood of 1951 devastated the stockyards, which never fully recovered, although the town did smell better for a few days.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Nor is it connected to the novel by Upton Sinclair about Chicago’s stockyards.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
  • According to Rogers, part of the horn furniture craze can be traced to the development of railroads bringing cattle to stockyards.
    — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • In it are modest towns, with their workaday routines; brash cities, promoting art along with railroads and stockyards; the vast grandeur of Western deserts; the gilded glory of opera houses.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Basinger, who has a stockyard in Indiana, is used to brokering and hauling horses and cattle and even buffalo.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Mar. 2021
  • For the thousands of mostly young people packed into the stockyard building, however, politics was far from their minds.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, some 60 longhorn cattle escaped from a nearby stockyard.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • This section is often removed and discarded because it is ridden with cartilage, and there was a lot of leftover rib tips back when Chicago had the stockyards.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • The Chicago River was once so polluted one swath became known for bubbles that would rise up from the rotting stockyard carcasses below.
    — Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Ballrooms were decorated to look like mines with beams, iron tracks, and miner’s lamps … One hostess invited everyone to a stockyard ball.
    — Jonathan Dee, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • It was supposed to be a big year for U.S. cattle stockyards, but the coronavirus epidemic is calling into question forecasts for rising beef demand around the world.
    — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2020
  • One such community is Kansas City, a historic hub of baseball and a locale for Mexican-Americans, who put down roots around the area’s stockyards, railroads and farms.
    — Michael Kelley, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2016
  • The plant’s location in the Armourdale district was selected for its proximity to the stockyards, which produced animal fat for use in making soap.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton and Matt Campbell, kansascity, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The idea was to restore civility to the often-caustic world of politics, but some thought that was little more than a polite veneer, like spraying air freshener on a stockyard.
    — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Pigtown's stockyards and slaughterhouses are long gone.
    — Richard Selden, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
  • Midwestern cities thrived on the strength of immigrant labor; the stockyards in Kansas City grew into the second largest livestock exchange and meatpacking district in America.
    — Ted Genoways, New Republic, 15 May 2017
  • The Armourdale location at 19th Street and Kansas Avenue was selected for its proximity to the stockyards, which produced animal fats used in soap making.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Polish immigrants worked tough jobs — in the stockyards, at tanning factories and steel mills, and garment manufacturers.
    — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The magazine was offering substantial reward money for the apprehension of each suspect ($1,200 in total, according to Mahoney, which would be the equivalent of a year’s pay at the South St. Paul stockyards).
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 27 May 2017

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