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US
/ˈpædək/
]
[ UK /pˈædək/ ]
[ UK /pˈædək/ ]
NOUN
- pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
How To Use paddock In A Sentence
- If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
- The early commercial pea crops weren't sown in rows like home gardens, but were planted over the whole paddock and required a great deal of bending over to harvest the sweet green pods.
- The layout of the enclosures, paddocks, and yards suggests an emphasis on stock-raising.
- Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
- I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
- As we walk around a lush, hilly paddock with his two grandsons, Quinn's obviously proud of what he's achieved so far.
- Our partnership came to a painfully abrupt end one afternoon when she ran off with me under a metal paddock rail. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
- Beyond the horse paddock, a troop of capybaras, pig-size aquatic rodents, emerged from the tree line and settled serenely into a wallow.
- The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture.
- He is hobbling around the paddock on crutches and is using modified leathers and an oversized right boot. Times, Sunday Times