Corral Meaning
/kəˈɹæl/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
nounAn enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
Sentence Examples
He couldn't corral his anger.
NASA wants to corral an asteroid.
Ziri got the lambs into a separated corral.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The cowboys built a sturdy ____ to hold the wild horses.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He couldn't ____ his anger.
Word Origin & History
From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
"By the end of this year the work of 168 coal depots scattered throughout the Birmingham Division will have been coralled [sic] into about two dozen concentration depots."
— 1964 March, “News and Comment: Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152:
"They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years."
— 2019 November 16, Austin Ramzy, Chris Buckley, “‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims”, in New York Times:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The cowboys built a sturdy ____ to hold the wild horses.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He couldn't ____ his anger.