silo
noun
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
silos
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pluralof silo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“No one could sit in their silos; we all spent a lot of time in the sandbox together,” he notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“People get out of their silos and live the way people used to live, which was more intergenerationally,” Steinig said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
An existing desalination plant with large white silos on Vulcano, one of the archipelago's eight islands, has made it autonomous for drinking water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Back toward Black Swan Green, Dawn Madden's farm silos, a spiral staircase of smoke, the Christmas-tree plantation, Saint Gabriel's spire, and its two nearly-as-tall redwoods.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
