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• The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.From the entry thunderstick
• When he said they hunt buffalo, he was using the ethnographic present- there are no buffalo on the reservation.From the entry ethnographic present
• A worker tends to a water buffalo at an animal sanctuary in Tainan’s Liuying District yesterday.2023 July 5, “Good news”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Taiwan News, page 3. From the entry Liuying
• So they borrowed—or loanshifted—the name of an animal already familiar to them: buffalo.2017 August, Neal Rappleye, ““Put Away Childish Things”: Learning to Read the Book of Mormon Using Mature Historical Thought”, in FAIR…. From the entry loanshift
• They've got a buffalo robe!” George seized his brother's outstretched arm.2013, R. E. Mitchell, Souls of Lions. From the entry bundlesome
• As a matter of fact, though, tamaraw are actually more like small water buffalo.2010, Patricia Sheridan, Locke: A Guide for the Perplexed, page 57. From the entry tamaraw
• Medicine bundle containing birdskin, weaselskin; weaselskin headdress, buffalo saddle blanket, lightning painted horses, ermineskin fringe shirt.2010, Joachim Fromhold, The Western Cree (Pakisimotan Wi Iniwak), page 41. From the entry weaselskin
• The choice was beef from water buffalo, and mutton from goats.2006, Pauline A. Brown, Jars of Clay: Ordinary Christians on an Extraordinary Mission in Southern Pakistan, Doorlight Publications, →ISBN…. From the entry mutton
• Today the carabao, also known as the water buffalo, is a very important animal in the Philippines.2005, Cindy Fazzi, How to Draw the Philippines's Sights and Symbols, page 24. From the entry carabao
• The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe.2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, page 46. From the entry plew
• Fire Thunder sprang from the back of the dying pony to the back of a passing buffalo!2003, Walter Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision, page 14. From the entry hee
• He grabbed that tail and twisted it and made his buffalo go wherever he wanted to go.2003, Walter Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision, page 14. From the entry hee
• Some people walk with a panther or strike a buffalo stance that makes you wanna dance.2003, Deborah Gregory, The Cheetah Girls: Livin' Large!, page 405. From the entry flip the script
• Pretty soon camp was hunt de buffalo, un I was hunt Snow-Owl's woman.2000, Frederic Remington, “Sun-Down Leflare's Warm Spot”, in John D. Seelye, editor, Stories of the Old West: Tales of the Mining Camp…. From the entry sais
• Bialowieza is home to the zubr, or Polish bison, which is a cousin of the American buffalo.1994, Don McKay, Our Global Village - Poland: A Cultural Resource Guide, Lorenz Educational Press, page 3. From the entry zubr
• “Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him.1978 December 16, John Fischer, “Henry Quiller's Sheep”, in The New York Times. From the entry cookfire
• Primitive people in all lands have long used the milk of cows, sheep, buffaloes, to produce Yogurt.1951 October 29, Hal Stebbins, “This "Secret of Youth" is 4000 Years Old”, in Life, volume 31, number 18, →ISSN, page 128. From the entry milk food
• The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry lollop
• We have only yoked one buffalo to the plough up till now.1918, Rudyard Kipling, “The Fumes of the Heart”, in The Eyes of Asia, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, pages 37–38. From the entry yoke
• Oh, my Brothers, five nights ago many of our braves were out upon the buffalo grounds.1908 June, Grace Kellogg, “A Keeper of the Door”, in National Magazine, volume 28, page 280. From the entry brother
• In the gym's snack bar, women were cooking buffalo meat and parched corn soup and were making frybread and wild-plum wojapi.2022, Adrian C. Louis, Skins. From the entry health bar
• I like composing acrostics while calculating the number of oxpeckers cleaning ticks from buffalo, giraffes and fellow rhinos.2021, Graham Fulbright, Snowcub, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics.: Matador, →ISBN, pages 219–220. From the entry bicorn
• From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 267. From the entry coteau
• The buffalo hides were then placed over the entire structure and, after several hours of work, Billy said, “Oki, looking good.2016 May 6, Charles Still Waters, chapter 23, in Two-Fingers and the White Guy: The Search Continues, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry oki
• Buffalo meat, known as “carabeef,” is India’s most valuable agricultural export, recently beating out basmati rice by a slim margin.2015 June 25, Max Bearak, “Indian Beef Workers Fight to Bring Back the Bull Market”, in New York Times. From the entry carabeef
• Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61. From the entry trapezoidal
• Buffalo Exchange is one of Williamsburg's hidden gems.2010, Tabitha Akins, "Brooklyn", in "Outside Of Your Borough: Thrift Stores", W27 (State University of New York), Volume 42, Issue 79…. From the entry thriftster
• Like scaloppine, scotched collops must not be overcooked or they will take on a texture not unlike dried buffalo.1995, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 183. From the entry scotched collops
• After I first saw the old man I kept watching for those buffalo nickels, but they’re all Thomas Jeffersons now.1993 June, Hortense Calisher, “Blind Eye, Wrong Foot”, in Laura Furman, editor, American Short Fiction, volume 3, number 10, Austin, Tex.…. From the entry Thomas Jefferson
• This story arc about "hunting the buffalo" is part of a larger story arc about "developing relationships with the Indians".1992, Linda Seger, The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film. From the entry story arc
• He's got the clue 'corn mush.' The answer is 'samp.' Then there's 'dwarf buffalo.' The answer is 'anoa.' It's laughable.20 March 1988, Sam Hodges, “Puzzlers Exchanging A Lot Of Cross Words”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry crosswordese
• They arrived at Okanogan with twenty-six horses, fathoms upon fathoms of higua, deerskin garments, and buffalo robes uncounted.1956, Cecil Dryden, By Sea on the Tonquin, Caldwell, Ida.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., →LCCN, page 221. From the entry adventureress
• "I can butcher a buffalo and make pemmican.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 27. From the entry pemmican

Meaning of buffalo

1. noun An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
2. noun A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
3. noun The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).

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How do you use buffalo in a sentence?

Buffalo is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.”

What is a short sentence with buffalo?

“"I can butcher a buffalo and make pemmican.”

What does buffalo mean?

Buffalo means an animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.