Verb (used with object) : to corral votes. From Dictionary.com.
"Yes, but I don't much like the way we have 'corralled' them," returned. From Wordnik.com. [George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers] Reference
All these, therefore, have to be "corralled," except when they are running loose among their unfenced pastures. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Leaves An Indian Story] Reference
"There is a section that is kind of corralled off. From Wordnik.com. [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference
Maybe they corralled those kind of people into New Jersey. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaslight Anthem: Songs For The Working Class] Reference
"We've got them corralled now," he remarked to his comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
"And was finally corralled by an Irish engineer!" said Slim. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
This he carried over to near where the horses were corralled. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
But my brother was out in the barn and he corralled him going by. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
The remainder of the rats were corralled and carried away rejoicing. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Some one of the corralled and scourged may stick a smile into his back. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Mounted troops corralled the mobs as cowboys round up belligerent cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
FOREMAN (voice-over): Keeping the suburblicans corralled is no easy task. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2008] Reference
And she corralled those positive comments into a feed that anyone could see. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Bernoff: Empowered: Managing In Real Time] Reference
My father threw money on the table and corralled us back to the safety of the car. From Wordnik.com. [Is There an Age Limit on Road Trips?] Reference
The horses were corralled, and Maupin and his son and a young German stood guard all night. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
If Jameson had not tried to raid the Dutchman, the Dutchman would not have corralled Jameson. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
And when they left with their hostages, they left the women corralled behind in a locked room. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2006] Reference
Its members, if they defy the courts, will be corralled in bull pens or mowed down by Gatling guns. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
He was finally corralled in a barn, the barn was set on fire, and while thus at bay he was shot down. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It will feed the vending machine (food, drink and newspaper) and kept the change corralled in one spot. From Wordnik.com. [Hints From Heloise] Reference
When you have corralled it, let me know what company it is keeping and I will tell you what to do next. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
It was the kind of request that so flummoxed the receptionist that she corralled somebody in authority. From Wordnik.com. [Cellphone Girl (Part I)] Reference
Shopping carts are tagged and corralled to doyourbidding, to carryyourgoods, yourproduce and meat and milk. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
"Sam may have been corralled by the old farmer, but it's for something else besides the fire and poisoning.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck] Reference
Another corralled several thousand supporters of building a dome over Chicago to keep the city warm all year. From Wordnik.com. [Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever] Reference
Walters, who has been filling in as moderator for Whoopi Goldberg this week, finally corralled everyone back. From Wordnik.com. ['The View' Hosts Fight Over Don't Ask, Don't Tell] Reference
They were arrested at their tables, while performing their duties, were corralled and now were off to prison. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
The problem is whether these frictions remain in a reasonably corralled procedure, which is what WTO is about. From Wordnik.com. [WTO Head Pooh-Poohs World Trade War Possibility] Reference
A large number of cattle were collected in the plain and corralled, to be driven along to-morrow for subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in California] Reference
This group often attacks civilians, and when their "taxes" aren't paid, herds of cattle are corralled and dynamited. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
In this way one by one we corralled the logs, and after tying them together again resumed our voyage down the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
He was my partner for a number of years, and many are the suckers we roped in, and many the huge roll of bills we corralled. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
"It is no use to try to get back to camp tonight," said Tom, when the last of the pack and saddle animals had been corralled. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
Ottawa were duly corralled, haltered, hobbled, surcingled and thrown, finally harnessed and driven by either of the old parties. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
They then took between 100 and 150 men hostage and took them away with them, leaving the women behind, corralled, in a locked room. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2006] Reference
Bill is corralled by a pair of enticing predators, while a champagne-tipsy Alice fends off the moves of a Continental lounge lizard. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming With 'Eyes Wide Shut'] Reference
In 1997 his wife bought a ritzy stucco house among Tempe's wealthy "horse properties," complete with a pony corralled in the backyard. From Wordnik.com. [Corralling Sammy 'The Bull'] Reference
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