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Recent Examples of stockyardThe steep bluffs between downtown (which was spreading south from the river) and the West Bottoms, where the train station stockyards and other industries were located, presented a very vertical obstacle.—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025 By 1886 four stockyards had been built near the railroads.—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Johnson started working at age 6, getting blood out of the overalls of a stockyard working neighbor.—Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 Mars used the inheritance to raise purebred Hereford cattle and to buy a stockyard.—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stockyard
Just six yards out, Teze powered a header on target, but Vicario spread himself across the goal and palmed his shot away.
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Elias Burke,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
In last week’s 56-31 dismantling of previously unbeaten UNLV, Boise State called a fake punt in the fourth quarter, and Doyle delivered again, on an 11-yard pass play to tight end Matt Wagner.
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