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• He listened to music on his media player while he worked out on the treadmill: a classic use of background fodder.From the entry background fodder
• In the agribulk sector the main products transported are grais, animal fodder and fertilizers.2016 July 16, Bart Wiegmans, Rob Konings, Inland Waterway Transport: Challenges and prospects, Routledge, page ???. From the entry agribulk
• Where gauchers are poor or nonexistent, fodder feeding is an option.1997, Paul Robbins, Negotiating Ecology, page 213. From the entry gaucher
• Smith, in his publication on fodder and forage plants for the U.S.1987, Hugh Nelson Mozingo, Shrubs of the Great Basin: A Natural History, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry winterfat
• At Waterpoort in South Africa, a worker (left, below) chain-saws branches from a matoppie tree for fodder.1984, National Geographic, volume 165, page 179. From the entry matoppie
• It’s fodder, something to kill time chewing between bites of hamburger and swallows of milk shake.1977, Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry french-fried potatoes
• The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry mandragora
• Of other fodder crops the kales, cabbages, silver-beets, soya beans, and maizes have received attention.1914, The Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, 1913, Wellington: […] John Mackay, […], →OCLC, page 55. From the entry silver-beet
• Try to break a little more land every year; sod corn is good for fodder.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 2. From the entry break ground
• The soldiers were sitting ducks, sent forth by Russian commanders to act essentially as human cannon fodder in an assault.2023 February 13, Andrew E. Kramer, “‘Our Losses Were Gigantic’: Life in a Sacrificial Russian Assault Wave”, in The New York Times…. From the entry sitting duck
• The actor, who prizes mystery, hated being gossip fodder.2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times. From the entry anathema
• De-centered, Trumpish times — when every social norm seems to have been upended — have given Lipsyte plenty of satirical fodder.2019 January 11, Mark Athitakis, “Sam Lipsyte’s ‘Hark’ satirizes hucksters and the schlubs who love them”, in Los Angeles Times, Los…. From the entry meme-speak
• In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The…. From the entry attack
• Mature chickens provide even more fodder for strolling munchers .2012 January 16, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the…. From the entry adidas
• It's 'dragon fodder', what errant German husbands give their wives when they've been up to something she'll disapprove of.2005 April 16, Roger Whitehead, uk.rec.photo.misc (Usenet). From the entry Drachenfutter
• The purpose of ropeline is mainly to carry down fodder grass, firewood and animal compost from hill to settlement.1985, Tejvir Singh, Integrated Mountain Development, page 417. From the entry ropeline
• J-schools used to see themselves largely as training grounds for the cannon fodder that would head off to local radio and TV stations and newspapers.2018, Bill Grueskin, “Do we still need J-schools? Yes, more than ever”, in Columbia Journalism Review. From the entry J-school
• This is also gendered: it is women and feminine-of-centre people who are producing these forms of activism as well as being fodder for appropriation.2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, Intellect Books, →ISBN. From the entry feminine of center
• Yet even as he stood as a not-so-benign emblem of black power, erotic and otherwise, the hypersexualized black male also became fodder for white exploitation.2009 January 18, Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott, “How the Movies Made a President”, in New York Times. From the entry hypersexualize
• The high impact derives from the farmstock fodder grown with chemicals, transport fuels, and the potent greenhouse gas methane from belching cattle and sheep.2009 January 23, Kate Connolly, “Schnitzel off the menu as Germans are told to cut down on eating meat”, in The Guardian. From the entry farmstock
• The transported were overwhelmingly young, unmarried men with little or no economic skill: the cannon fodder of war and the jail fodder of peace.2001, Alan Taylor, chapter 14, in American Colonies, Penguin, published 2002, page 315. From the entry jail fodder
• Furthermore, some communes and brigades would not allow the members to engage in "minor autumn crop harvesting" or to collect fodder grass in the mountains.1978 February 8 [1978 February 2], “Abolished 'Indigenous Policies' of Gang Denounced”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China…. From the entry Mentoukou
• Soviet communism is trying to make these nations into colonies, and to use their people as cannon fodder in new wars of conquest.1951 January 8, Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address. From the entry cannon fodder
• The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry cud
• Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39. From the entry cattle
• These can cause liver damage to horses, but only if fed dried in fodder, as the sharp taste of the fresh plant deters horses in the field.2016, Hoyland, Graham, Walking through spring : an English journey, page 226. From the entry mare's fart
• An investigation showed that the camels had been poisoned by fodder contaminated with an antibiotic called salinomycin, often added to chicken feed but poisonous to camels.2008 March 17, Katherine Zoepf, “Camels Go Easily Through the Eyes of Admirers”, in New York Times. From the entry salinomycin
• Videos that were once YouTube fodder of Weezy sitting around the studio, drinking sizzurp and getting baked out of his mind now find their way onto his releases.2008 April 14, “Big ego, Lil Wayne on new mixtape”, in The Michigan Daily. From the entry sizzurp
• Yet, a richer diversity of song texture and timbre would elevate this 12-track collection from gorgeous, atmospheric background fodder to a set that reverberates with more distinction.2002, Billboard, volume 114, number 23, page 35. From the entry background fodder
• It should not be planted to sugar beet, fodder beet, alfalfa, red clover, serradella, potato, asparagus, or fennochio as these plants are attacked by the fungus.1920, Burton Edward Livingston and Jacob Richard Schramm [eds.], and Mildred Stratton Krauss [compil.], Botanical Abstracts (Williams &…. From the entry fennochio

Meaning of fodder

1. noun Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
2. noun A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
3. noun Tracing paper.

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How do you use fodder in a sentence?

Fodder is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.”

What is a short sentence with fodder?

“The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.”

What does fodder mean?

Fodder means food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.