How To Use Pinfold In A Sentence

  • All stray sheep were collected in the pinfold until the owners came to collect them.
  • The size and shape of pinfolds varies, some are four sided: rectangular, square and irregular, others are circular.
  • He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health. Henry’s Demons
  • The dog hound, bred by Jimmy Glaister out of West Vale Haze by Pinfold Rock, put in some good performances only to beaten on the run to the line.
  • In the midst of this, Pinfold suspects he is going insane, and when he discovers he is being hoaxed by enemies among the passengers, he is relieved: “He might be unpopular; he might be ridiculous; but he was not mad.” Henry’s Demons
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  • His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Ivanhoe
  • You carried a cord around in your pocket and you'd take the dog to Wavertree Pinfold.
  • Imagine my surprise when I got to the ‘rope walk’, the section between the Old Catholic chapel and the pinfold, and found that either end of the ancient right of way had been, not only dug over but also built upon.
  • Pinfold, a middle-aged writer living in the country, goes abroad because he is already in poor health, but from the moment he enters his cabin on a ship called the Caliban, bound for Ceylon, he hears voices denigrating him. Henry’s Demons
  • Inevitably, other cattle and sheep occasionally escaped and were, if not claimed, fastened into the Pinfold.
  • The wall at Pinfold Cottage will be repaired and a short section of new embankment is also proposed next to the washland.
  • Pinfold and his team are searching for an elusive, almost mythical, particle called a magnetic monopole.
  • We are over-fond of drawing monitory morals from the lives of gifted persons, tacking together our little ten-by-twelve pinfolds to impound breachy human nature in, but it is only because we know more than we have any business to know of the private concerns of such persons that we have the opportunity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860

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