How to Use livestock in a Sentence

livestock

noun
  • About the Houston Rodeo The livestock show and rodeo was first held in 1932.
    USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The livestock were all killed as a result of the program.
    Haleigh Kochanski, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
  • When the tile degraded, the gaps were filled in with livestock bones.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Make sure livestock, pets and people have a safe place to stay warm.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • He was born on a farm where corgis are still used to herd livestock.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the past few years, a handful of wolves have wandered down from Wyoming and killed livestock.
    Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Once harvested, the corn is used for ethanol, feed for livestock and whiskey.
    Tommy Birch, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Wolves kill some livestock and hunting dogs each year as well as prey on deer and elk.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
  • And if one of his livestock dogs get out, will a jumpy officer shoot it?
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Now, these tiny creatures are the fastest-growing type of livestock in the country.
    Jacob Knutson, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In 2015, the European Union banned the practice of livestock cloning.
    Bill Frist, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Ports would jam; trucking rates would soar; livestock would run out of feed.
    WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Will there be livestock on display at the Harvest Fair?
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The issue is on the rise due to the misuse of antibiotics in both humans and livestocks.
    Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
  • Or when a system reduces men to the status of livestock.
    Jelani Cobb, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In the parched north of the country, rivers are running dry and millions of livestock have perished due to lack of food.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Scores of livestock and other animals have died in the weeks since the toxic fumes spread through the small town.
    Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The increase in wolf population has also led to an uptick in the deaths of livestock in the area.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • But, without them, locals had to collect dead livestock and pile them on the edge of town.
    Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Since this is in Cowtown, much of the property can be used for livestock.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • Most of them were introduced decades ago to feed livestock, Thorne said.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Weiman yells out in Hebrew to a woman tending to the sheep, asking whom the livestock belong to.
    Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • That in turn helps sustain food crops for both humans and livestock.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Without it, farmers wouldn’t have the means to keep their livestock alive and water their plants.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Farmers also let their cows and pigs range freely in the delta, where the livestock overgraze and trample young trees.
    James Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The livestock below deck were thrown about, and men had to cover their faces as mean, biting hogs rained down.
    Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In the Netherlands, the backlash against livestock reduction goals has been fierce.
    Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The dressing came from flowering grapevines and olive trees; the cheese, from livestock that adapted to eat grass.
    Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Wooden poles on the first floor bear worn spots believed to be from ropes where livestock was tied when the structure was a dairy barn.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2024
  • As a livestock truck entered the property, Stella raced to the driveway and waited patiently for her work to begin.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024

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