corral
an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
a circular enclosure formed by wagons during an encampment, as by covered wagons crossing the North American plains in the 19th century, for defense against attack.
to confine in or as if in a corral.
Informal.
to seize; capture.
to collect, gather, or garner: to corral votes.
to form (wagons) into a corral.
Origin of corral
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How to use corral in a sentence
So imagine my surprise in 2006 — 27 years after the show shone for the last time in anything but reruns — when with my daughter on my shoulders, none other than Starsky pulled up next to me at a horse corral in Southern California.
Catching Shade From Your (and the Beastie Boys’) Favorite TV Cop | Eugene Robinson | October 14, 2020 | OzyAll of my daughters were obsessed with vaulting, a kind of gymnastics on horseback, and the sport took us all over the place, often to the edge of horse corrals to watch people flip and twist on and off the backs of trotting horses.
Catching Shade From Your (and the Beastie Boys’) Favorite TV Cop | Eugene Robinson | October 14, 2020 | OzyFor years, the Friends of Balboa Park and the Balboa Park Conservancy have separately worked to raise funds and corral volunteers to support the iconic park with a long list of needs.
Two Balboa Park Groups Are in Talks to Merge | Lisa Halverstadt | October 10, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoHe found the man in the driveway, standing by a pickup outside a corral.
It’s His Land. Now a Canadian Company Gets to Take It. | by Lee van der Voo for ProPublica | October 1, 2020 | ProPublicaThe agency acknowledges that more than 160 containment structures have been built to corral spills since the late 1990s.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them. | by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica | September 18, 2020 | ProPublica
It looks like the shoot-out at the OK corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.
Dutch Biker Gangs Vs. ISIS | Nadette De Visser, Christopher Dickey | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd so the reaction seems to be to corral oneself off from disagreement.
Pew Study: Americans Are Self-Segregating Amid Proliferating Partisan Media | John Avlon | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHow can you corral all your health data in one central repository—effortlessly?
Apple Health App Plays to Our Laziness—and It’s Brilliant | Gregory Ferenstein | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd in the land of livestock and grassland and corral and endless highway, that is more or less everything.
Senator Paul also scorned “labels” and the tendency to corral politicians and thinkers into neat, ideological camps.
Is Rand Paul a Secret Hawk? Or Maybe Not a Total Dove? | James Kirchick | May 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA little corral for the sheep, and a rough shed for the pony, and the home was complete: far the prettiest home they had ever had.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonWal, then he walked up and down, up and down (this all happened out by the calf-corral), and blowed and blowed and blowed.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor GatesThere was an adobe house on the flat, a corral, and other evidences of a rather extensive ranch.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsThe plows are by the corral, and the first team that comes up is to be harnessed to each in turn.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossTom was her elder brother and as the girls walked toward the ranch house he crossed the yard from the corral.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair Blank
British Dictionary definitions for corral
/ (kɒˈrɑːl) /
mainly US and Canadian an enclosure for confining cattle or horses
mainly US (formerly) a defensive enclosure formed by a ring of covered wagons
to drive into and confine in or as in a corral
informal to capture
Origin of corral
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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