sheep station
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Robert McBride, whose parched sheep station in the state of New South Wales depends on its flow, estimates that 600km of the lower Darling will run dry this year.
From Economist ● May 17, 2018
This place, we speculated, must have been purchased as a kind of apocalyptic pied-a-terre: somewhere he could base himself, maybe, while whatever construction he had planned for the sheep station was underway.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2018
The station is the target of a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups who contend at least one grizzly bear has died because of the sheep station.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2014
This dour, good-looking film, transposed from the American west to a bankrupt sheep station in the Australian outback, is directed by British actor Rachel Ward.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2010
We halted at another sheep station of Mr. Boyd's.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
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