How to Use livestock in a Sentence

livestock

noun
  • And even back at the ranch, the livestock still seem spooked.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • The livestock were all killed as a result of the program.
    — Haleigh Kochanski, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
  • The livestock were all killed as a result of the program.
    — Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic, 30 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
  • These pigs can spread disease to humans, to pets, to wildlife, and to livestock.
    — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • He was born on a farm where corgis are still used to herd livestock.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Risks to pets and livestock Humans aren’t the only ones at risk.
    — David Kitchen, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In the past few years, a handful of wolves have wandered down from Wyoming and killed livestock.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The blaze has grown rapidly, burning close to ranches and livestock in the area.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The din of battle drowned out the bellows of frightened livestock.
    — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • 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
  • The land has been dry and barren for 15 months, forcing Tavakoli to sell his livestock to survive.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Keep water fresh in livestock tanks, and try to prevent spillover.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2025
  • One hypothesis as to how the fossils ended up there is that seasonal nomadic livestock herders traded meat and goods such as fossils with local inhabitants, in exchange for use of their land.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
  • The working ranch is now being run by the seventh generation, managing the property’s agriculture, timber and livestock operations along with the hunting.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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