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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No wonder that in times past, this tough tree was planted on farms and ranches as a thorny hedge to keep livestock in place.
  — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2024
• People, pets and livestock should not drink water from Ford Lake.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024
• Hay is not a plant, but rather a feed product from one of many varieties of grassy plant that can be dried and then fed to livestock.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• The change was the most noticeable in areas with high livestock numbers.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
• Dogs keep cheetahs away from livestock, which means they aren't killed by farmers.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 May 2024
• At four dairies, some of the employees were reported to have their own livestock at home.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• But the wild dogs are known to attack other animals, such as cats and small livestock.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 May 2024
• Methane is emitted from oil and gas projects, livestock, and even landfills as waste breaks down.
  — Camille Bond, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2023
• But even the most majestic of pumpkins inevitably meets the same fate: devoured by livestock, and returned to the earth.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024