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.
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  • 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
  • It works well, though, and since we bought a rotary slasher to replace the original flail mower it does the job of topping the paddocks and light mulching very well.
  • So there I was in the paddock when I'm flattened by some idiot running into me on a monkey bike!
  • Some graziers are planting paddocks with kale or turnips for winter forage in the North.
  • Jockey Shane Sellers, who suffered a cracked tailbone when he was unseated in a paddock accident last week at Churchill Downs, plans to return to riding within two weeks.
  • Fields and paddocks must be carefully fenced, as goats are very good at escaping. Times, Sunday Times
  • The "slaughterman" was in fact an eighty-year-old lady and, once a week, she would buy a beast from the market and keep it in her paddock. The emasculation of common sense
  • In his paddock he ran a hand over the mane of a gangly newborn foal. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can chase bulls or hang around the horse paddock - the one that's been converted into a great swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • England were able to shift the heavier Welsh pack around the paddock, presuming that the men in red shirts would run out of puff.
  • That happened in agriculture - out in the paddocks and the cornfields - but, ultimately, the food ends up on people's plates, sustaining the population.
  • Ragwort in grazing paddocks is life-threatening to horses and other livestock.
  • Unfortunately quite a few were killed by vehicles but if grazing had been effective on neighbouring paddocks, many of the roos would have been saved.
  • He evaluated rotational stocking, in which large numbers of cattle were moved through a series of small paddocks at short intervals to prevent overgrazing.
  • Using electric fences, farmers split their pastures into a large number of small paddocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Horses grazing the paddock will therefore eat some of these worms. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
  • The horses in the paddocks were whinnying and nickering, and our mares called out in response.
  • Residents in Little Lever have objected to plans to build an exercise paddock for horses at the rear of their homes.
  • But there was a stroke of good fortune for Fallon in the paddock before the race as Gift Horse lashed out with his hind legs, narrowly missing the jockey.
  • Lax rotational grazing systems are those having less than seven paddocks with a grazing period of one to two weeks.
  • I noticed, across a distant paddock, a white-haired figure striding through the grass.
  • He has half a dozen acres, with six llamas in a paddock: possibly the only llamas in the Creuse. Dead Right « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
  • From my house in Heretaunga, my favourite trail was across the road and west a few blocks until the suburban houses gave way to paddocks, the crossing of which lead down to the river bed.
  • I have paddocks of horses in embryonic form for our Eden colony. Mandala « A Fly in Amber
  • We wander down to the lower paddock and pat the milky-white Saanen dairy goats - an all-girl herd of 14.
  • The town consists of two rustically elegant cabins, a ranch office, paddocks with shelters, a covered round pen, stables, and at the center of it all, Sniffy's Saloon.
  • The gardens and paddock to the rear and side of the property are railed and fenced to allow maintenance of pony or other animals.
  • Currently, a fee is considered earned when the horse leaves the paddock.
  • They have also been found feeding on playing fields, in horse paddocks and in piggeries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also, grazing that leaves very short stubble could lead to a greater risk of bloat if livestock are hungry when turned into the next paddock.
  • A leash was wrapped round a strong wrist, and at the end of the leash a black Scottie sat on the paddock grass. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Vaulting the stile, he headed diagonally across the paddock.
  • He bows out as one of the most popular figures in the paddock, universally liked and respected. Times, Sunday Times
  • The field was reduced to six when Rapid Ryan was ordered scratched by the stewards in the paddock because he was wearing improper shoes.
  • Following the detectives the other members of the party came in straggling order, and it was well after 10 o’clock when the real business of the day was commenced in the top paddock at Kilmany Park, about a mile and a half further on than what is known as the racecourse paddock. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The Danthonia was decimated by the corellas this year. The mothers just pulled up all the new growth by the 1,000's when plowing the paddocks.
  • The family own at least six ponies and their home has stables and a paddock. The Sun
  • The paddock, baked by hot sunshine, looked just a little forlorn last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Last season it was a flexible front wing that had the paddock up in arms; this season it is the blown diffuser. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beyond that lay the two-acre paddock -- wind-sewn with thistles and ragwort. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • Cattle would graze Appalachian pastures intensively and be rotated from paddock to paddock, just as grass-fed Argentine cattle graze on the South American pampas.
  • Dead ahead was low-lying - the countryside seemingly unpopulated except for the occasional farmhouse and paddock. CORMORANT
  • Paddock: Well, damn good thing yoou didn't, right? Shit, I ticked off.
  • Saki watched in humor as Noir raced around the paddock trying to get a grip on any of the horses.
  • For two afternoons a week, for the two summer school terms, for four years, I was made to stand in the middle of a featureless paddock in the middle of this sere landscape, doing nothing except seething with a mixture of boredom and anger.
  • There is a large garden, barn, orchard and paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • Around the village there were open fields and paddocks.
  • Paddock: Yeah, you're supposed to be off finding some castle on the road to Cherbourg.
  • Malone looked out over the stud farm with its lush green paddocks, the white railing fences and the double row of stables of red brick. MURDER SONG
  • The only option would be to burn the paddock to the ground.
  • Cows were removed from the hay paddock as they calved and were placed on their respective cool-season grass pastures.
  • Towards the west end of the zoo were a number of large paddocks, home to zebras, deer, horned oryx and Przewalski wild horses.
  • There are also gardens and two paddocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some paddocks or parts of paddocks should get a sprinkling of grass seed if they are badly damaged.
  • She's always great fun in the F1 paddock. The Sun
  • You'd easily feed a family from here, and right now there's hens as well for eggs, and a pair of donkeys in a large, lush paddock by the stone entrance pillars, with new cast iron estate fencing recently put in, and made by local craftworker Charlie Trigg. IrishExaminer.com
  • Three stables and a paddock bring the total area to 2.8 acres. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many of the landslips and landslides, and the silt that has covered paddocks, are not covered by any form of insurance.
  • A heavier than normal fertilizer dressing should be applied on paddocks that didn't receive nitrogen after the last grazing.
  • He died peacefully in his paddock there. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're also having a paddock and dressage ring made for Gill's horses,’ says Marven.
  • We all made it across the rope-bridge, and saw some Irish paddocks of land.
  • She spends her life in houses just like this, riding horses round paddocks like this. Times, Sunday Times
  • We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station -- a shed standing out on the plain -- in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch. Station Life in New Zealand
  • He saw gum trees collecting along roads and fences and then scattering randomly across paddocks. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The ewes in lamb are being moved to safer paddocks beyond the museum, while the goats and the pony have been found temporary homes.
  • The four-bedroom detached house is set amid sheltered gardens and boasts railed paddocks, stables, a swimming pool and hard tennis court.
  • The family own at least six ponies and their home has stables and a paddock. The Sun
  • DOWNSIDE The paddock is small. Times, Sunday Times
  • They wanted farmers to adopt improved grazing techniques by fencing paddocks or camps where animals could be left overnight.
  • After their return they groomed their horses and were due to turn them out into a paddock.
  • It's 6: 01 p.m. and the horses come from the darkness of the paddock tunnel into the track's sunlight.
  • To the front of the house, there is a formal garden enclosed by boxwood hedging while beyond there is a woodland garden and a paddock bisected by the Corrie Burn.
  • The sheaves, which are tied by the machine, are stooked in the paddock for ten or fourteen days until dry enough to be carted in and stacked. Wheat Growing in Australia
  • The location was used for the Expo 67 World Fair and the paddock backs onto a rowing basin built for the 1976 Olympic Games.
  • Water flooded the entire hay field and backed up into the horse paddocks right up to the elevation of his machine shop.
  • She would have run off, if I had let her - I caught her one day heading for the thistled horse paddocks; after that I kept her tender feet unshod and let the bindi-eyes do the policing with their peculiarly masculine and wordless perseverance.
  • She was about to lead the three-year-old in from the paddock when another horse in the yard unsettled him and he bucked, kicking Blanche under the jaw and knocking her unconscious.
  • Some graziers are planting paddocks with kale or turnips for winter forage in the North.
  • The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal's leg in a paddock. North America — Volume 1
  • If you have two acres divided into four paddocks, you can place one waterer in the middle of the pasture where all four paddocks converge.
  • There is also party barn, garaging and four acres of land, including paddocks and river frontage. Times, Sunday Times
  • As he places fence posts in a pasture paddock, he talks about grass.
  • It has a swimming pool and paddocks and five stables. The Sun
  • Then tongues of flame are in our front paddock, then in a small stand of trees 50m from the house. The Sun
  • A hellish day - it pours down with rain non-stop, turning the paddocks into mud and making our jobs difficult and dirty, it can be difficult for the animals too.
  • Everyone said he was one of the quietest horses in the paddock.
  • Panic was not an option for Ronald Mobbs when the engine of his private plane stopped mid-air just seconds before landing in a paddock outside Bundaberg yesterday.
  • Ria was exercising her horse in the paddock, because he was getting too frisky; at least that was her excuse.
  • I always kept well away from their end of the paddock as I had a horror of a break-out.
  • More than one stallion can be housed under the same roof, but they should all have separate paddocks or grazing patches.
  • The girls took the meal round the paddocks, this time with Bob to carry the steaming billies of tea; it gave him a chance to thank his helpers, when it was difficult to say whether the thanker or the thanked were the more embarrassed. Back to Billabong
  • The Kentucky Derby poster is a pastel rendering depicting a rich Derby day paddock scene with the twin spires in the background.
  • The house has a paddock and stables. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few friends met and had a bit of fun coursing in a paddock of 400 acres enclosed with wire netting.
  • He knew the fields and the woods, the wild creatures and the birds; he knew how to plough and to reap; he could keep an allotment full of vegetables all the year round; he understood a stable and a dairy, a paddock and sheepfold.
  • She spends her life in houses just like this, riding horses round paddocks like this. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jonny had now flown past the old record and was looking for a good paddock to land in near the road.
  • The deal included 10 acres of woodland and paddocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • There was absolute lack of coordination and communication between the start, the paddocks and corner marshals.
  • The animals were confined to drylot paddocks and fed the assigned concentrate in individual feeding stalls.
  • On the day of competition, semi trailers rolled through the Anzac Oval gates, and in a matter of hours, television standard lighting was erected and an electronic scoreboard mounted, converting the paddock into a spectacular colosseum.
  • The grounds include rolling lawns, trees, a railed paddock and a detached double garage with up-and-over doors.
  • Furthermore, the track used an elevated wood-chip walking path in the infield for horses to cut through on their way from the backstretch to the paddock.
  • Especially if it were a lazy horse who'd rather be hanging around in a paddock somewhere without some bloke on its back whipping it.
  • Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing.
  • I'm going down to the little paddock for a lesson in bullock driving from Burton. Mates at Billabong
  • Returning triumphantly to the paddock, the jockey found the farmer who had hired him fuming with rage. Christianity Today
  • He spent 30 years with the association, holding down positions as a outrider, paddock judge, and clerk of scales before his retirement in 1995.
  • The move was necessary due to a need for larger stables and paddocks, a training area for a mechanical horse, a full racetrack, and living quarters for out-of-town students.
  • I stroke the soft noses of Bramble and Bracken, the cobby, good-natured riding school ponies, as they graze in their paddock, on whose back I would vault bareback and steal a bridle-less ride, twenty seven years ago. *Earworms and guilty pleasures and country roads
  • The views from this property are a main selling point, as are the extensive paddocks and adjoining buildings, which could greatly extend the house or provide guest accommodation.
  • Certainly chatting over meat pies and mushy peas in the bar, or gathered in huddles around the rickety stables and paddock, every colourful aspect of local life seems to be represented.
  • The other is a formal drawing room with french doors that open on to a lawn that stretches out into a paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • To accommodate this difference in growth rate, one or more paddocks could be cut for hay in the spring while other paddocks are grazed.
  • About nine months ago we off-loaded surplus sheep and cattle stock, because we simply couldn't feed them from natural paddock pastures.
  • In his paddock he ran a hand over the mane of a gangly newborn foal. Times, Sunday Times
  • The frames of his glasses held together by duct tape, the man waits at the entrance to the paddock for the first horse to arrive.
  • The company gives its clients access to the F1 paddock and racing days at its test track in Italy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Home Paddock was nothing less than a gigantic circular firebreak. THE THORN BIRDS
  • It's dry and dusty with red dirt and big skies and broad acre paddocks of wheat and sheep.
  • June 8th, 2009 3: 38pm it used to be called racialism till the socialists got in. like veterans used to be called ex-servicemen and women. like a loss used to be called a defeat. like a train station used to be called a railway station. you missed from the litany of racialist offences making a complaint to the planning authorities when a gang of car thieves plant their caravans and dogs in a lovely paddock near your house where parking or development are absolutely forbidden. and how many Tory or Lib Dem councillors will dare then to stand up for their anguished constituents in this situation? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • When horses are put together in paddocks, they need to be carefully chosen for their mutual compatibility.
  • He wants to build a new house on the paddock using the track as the main access. Times, Sunday Times
  • You may need to offer additional land for paddocks to make them attractive to tenants.
  • Dogs were exercised for 15 minutes twice daily in a paddock and raced 500 m twice weekly.
  • Its formal gardens contain a large pool, a games house and a paddock. The Sun
  • There are many public concerns about the safety of food products, from the farm to the silo, from the paddock to the abattoir, and from the food processors to the supermarket and eventually the dinner plate at home.
  • What is now largely settled land on the more direct route was at that time paddocks and stables for race horses, and it seemed to me then that I passed through a kind of wild route to get home.
  • Its formal gardens contain a large pool, a games house and a paddock. The Sun
  • Horses grazing the paddock will therefore eat some of these worms. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
  • Though unlike the Dressage farm's paddocks, these were dirt as opposed to grass and each had a large hay wheel in the center.
  • Outside are gardens and a paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • No hunting took place, but a crowd gathered around the racecourse paddock to hear a number of speeches.
  • The lambs in the paddock are constantly bleating at the moment, mainly for food (we're trying to wean them from milk to grass) but also for attention as we humans are their mums.
  • There are equestrian facilities beside the house, including six looseboxes, a turnout paddock and a full-sized all-weather arena with rubber mulch surface.
  • Horses 'prance' only in children's story books and yet here she was prancing and goose-stepping as she was cheered all the way from her backstretch stable to the paddock. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • He saw gum trees collecting along roads and fences and then scattering randomly across paddocks. The Times Literary Supplement
  • You should also remove your horses for a time from "composted" paddocks, but less time is needed. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • The rest is field and paddock and so on. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some horses had already made it down to the start and there were reports that others had "wobbled" on entering the paddock. WalesOnline - Home
  • Beyond the horse paddock, a troop of capybaras, pig-size aquatic rodents, emerged from the tree line and settled serenely into a wallow.
  • The rest is field and paddock and so on. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can chase bulls or hang around the horse paddock - the one that's been converted into a great swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 26-year-old has a reputation in the paddock for being slightly effete; his famously golden mane and privileged upbringing in Monaco - Rosberg is the son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg - earning him the nickname 'Britney' from his peers. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Fans wishing to get a final look at dual classic winner Point Given will have the opportunity on Wednesday when he will be paraded in the paddock and on the track.
  • He soon began galloping around the paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was an overwhelming, spontaneous feeling of goodwill towards him from pretty much the whole paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • As they were led back to the paddock after the race one wondered what was on the mind of Cahill after such a blistering performance on what was weather wise, a miserable day.
  • For many races, they exit left from the paddock area. The Sun
  • Reinforcing this effect are a series of terraces leading invitingly from formal and casual living areas through sets of double doors to the home paddock and bush beyond.
  • They will also shoot behind-the-scenes looks of the saddling paddock, receiving barn, and other restricted areas, as well as public areas of the track.
  • Next door to us on the other side was a paddock where the bottleoh kept his draught horses.
  • And of these residents the family whose term comprised the story I wish to relate was that of Mr. Jacob Paddock the market-gardener, who dwelt there for some years with his wife and grown-up daughter. A Changed Man
  • Elsewhere there are paddocks, woodland and rhododendrons, in a gently rolling landscape. Times, Sunday Times
  • As he watched her grow, he thought of his lovely thoroughbred fillies in the paddocks of Pointerstown. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • The paddock, baked by hot sunshine, looked just a little forlorn last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are also gardens and two paddocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • It still seems strange to have to get out into the paddock early in the morning in order to beat the free-range hens to the avocados, which they love almost as much as I do.
  • Four laps in and Webster forced a way through at Paddock Hill bend, grabbed the lead and started inexorably to pull away.
  • At the heart of the grange were farm buildings, paddocks, gardens, granaries, industrial areas and workshops, and a chapel.
  • She shares a paddock with a filly born a day earlier and is approximately the same size.
  • Powerscourt Paddocks should generate interest among families seeking a rural retreat within commuting distance of Dublin.
  • Fields and paddocks must be carefully fenced, as goats are very good at escaping. Times, Sunday Times
  • It looks awfully like standing at the gate, staring out into the paddock, wondering where the prize stallion has gone.
  • The run-off areas are too short, the pits are cramped and the paddock facilities are, by a long way, the worst of the season.
  • At 10:30 pm, we farewelled the folks, and backed out of the paddock, onto the network of roads leading to the border.
  • Outside are gardens and a paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • Outside is garaging, an outbuilding, gardens and a paddock. Times, Sunday Times
  • What is required to make the fence adequate depends upon the horses confined behind it, the proximity of the paddock or pasture to the highway, and the nature of the highway.
  • The Clover Paddock of Billabong was famous – a splendid stretch of perfect green, where the cattle moved knee-deep in fragrant blossoming clovers, with pink and white flowers starring the wide expanse. Mates at Billabong
  • Taking a lady's racing bike cross-country over mud-churned cow paddocks is probably not in the manufacturer's recommendations.
  • The grand prix complex is 90 per cent finished and the pits and paddock area has been used over the past fortnight for Olympic administration. Times, Sunday Times
  • But nobody will be arguing about those figures in the Barcelona paddock today. Times, Sunday Times
  • They then carried the washing to a nearby paddock with a clothes line which had to be hoisted high to be clear of the sheep grazing underneath.
  • This includes levelling 55 hectares of paddocks to reduce the accumulation of water on the land during floods, tree plantings and improvement of drainage systems.
  • He also offers the paddock land to the local gymkhana. Times, Sunday Times
  • In rotational grazing the pasture is divided into paddocks and the livestock moved from paddock to paddock.
  • Paul is a self-employed builder and joiner but keeps around 10 to 15 sows at one time in a paddock next to his bungalow.
  • A mare which enjoys a roll in its paddock can easily end up with ascarid eggs clinging to its coat. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • Yearling cattle, heifers and dry cows could be used to follow finishing cattle to clear off paddocks that have dried out.
  • The deal included 10 acres of woodland and paddocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • I accept that in the short term, farmers who are farming sheep and cattle, pastoral farmers, simply cannot afford to close up their paddocks and plant trees, or allow them to revert to native bush.
  • He led the old horse down the track to the paddock.
  • It was separated from the Boulevard de la Madeleine by a green paddock, and was concealed in a nest of laurustinus and clematis. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
  • Using electric fences, farmers split their pastures into a large number of small paddocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ye might go out to the paddock near noontide, though, lass, if ye've a mind to. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • She's always great fun in the F1 paddock. The Sun
  • The grand prix complex is 90 per cent finished and the pits and paddock area has been used over the past fortnight for Olympic administration. Times, Sunday Times

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