CORRAL in a Sentence

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For CORRAL, below is one of 11 sentences:
The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.

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 Meanings and Examples of CORRAL
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corral
 n.  enclosure for confining livestock; enclosure formed by a circle of wagons for defense against attack during an encampment
Classic Sentence:
1  The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
2  That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbours came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
3  The men could not go farther than the barns and corral.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
4  The cattle in the corral ate corn almost as fast as the men could shell it for them, and we hoped they would be ready for an early market.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
5  Each withdrew to a far corner of his own corral, and then they made for each other at a gallop.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
6  We all stood by and watched admiringly while Fuchs rode into the corral with a pitchfork and prodded the bulls again and again, finally driving them apart.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
7  She got her cattle home, turned them into the corral, and went into the house, into her room behind the kitchen, and shut the door.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
8  On the outskirts of town were the remount depots where horses and mules milled about in large corrals, and along side streets were the hospitals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  We could not so much as see the corrals, but we knew the steers were over there, huddled together under the north bank.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
Example Sentence:
1  One side of the corral was a high wall, and in the enclosure on the other side of the wall were the lung patients.
2  Well my mother would say the first time she knew I was interested in medicine was when she found me at the sheep corral with stethoscope, listening to the lambs' hearts beat.