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How to use bull in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Bull means specifically, one that is uncastrated. Example: “He bulled his way in.”

Examples of bull by meaning

nounAn adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.

  • Several huge bulls stood erect to get a better view of the intruder.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 196

nounBeef.

  • For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'1949, Stephen Peter Llewellyn, Journey Towards Christmas, page 142

nounAn investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

  • Bulls are hoping the prosecutions draw a line under the sector's troubled past and will allow it to tap billions of dollars of cash from Wall Street.2023 December 9, Scott Chipolina, “Unlikely resurgence for bitcoin as bulls bet on Wall Street adoption”, in FT Weekend (Companies &...

nounA policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.

  • The railroad bulls were waiting at the stops searching for freeloaders.2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grive Press, published 2022, page 93
  • He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...

nounA man who has sex with someone else's partner.

  • The Vixen, often known as ‘Hotwife’, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her).2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun, archived...

adjectiveOf large mammals, adult male.

  • a bull elephant
  • With the low, guttural snarl of the bull ape he sprang for the Frenchman.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 45
  • A bull elk can easily cover miles of rugged country in no time, especially if he is wounded or on the run.2021 [2001], John Eldredge, chapter 1, in Wild at Heart, Expanded edition, Nelson Books, →ISBN, page 2

adjectiveCharacterized by rising prices or belief that prices will rise.

  • a bull market

verbTo force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.

  • He bulled his way in.

More sentences with bull

  • We saw lots of cows at the farm show, including some surprisingly gigantic bulls.From the entry cow
  • The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.From the entry trumpet
  • She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.From the entry breed
  • You have to get out on a bull to succeed in a rodeo.From the entry get out
  • If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.From the entry run off
  • Simply mentioning the word "nationalism" to him is like a red rag to a bull.From the entry red rag to a bull
  • The poem re-enchants the bull by setting imaginary walls and thresholds around it.From the entry re-enchant
  • They said he survived the fall? What a load of bull!From the entry load of bull
  • Take this load of bull back where you bought it and get your money back.From the entry load of bull
  • I went home and I had a bull and cow with my trouble and strife.From the entry bull and cow
  • He managed to catch the runaway bull with a lasso.From the entry lasso
  • I saw the picador lance the bull.From the entry picador
  • Minotaurs are zoocephalic creatures: men with bulls' heads.From the entry zoocephalic
  • He expects me to believe that load of bull? Hey, listen, I was born at night but not last night!From the entry born at night but not last night
  • If necessary, I'll bull my way into the reception.From the entry one's way
  • My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.From the entry sool
  • The whole herd is out to pasture right now — the cows, calves, and heifers are out back, and the bulls are down by the creek.From the entry cow
  • After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.From the entry cred
  • The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea.2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry undersea
  • “Could he be a bit of a bull in a china shop?2020 September 11, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Adam Goldman, “Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Ignites a Smoldering Homeland Security Agency”, in The…. From the entry bull in a china shop
  • The next day in Boyztown I spotted an old bull tongue kissing a young male Cambodian lioness.2019, Luke Williams, Down and Out in Paradise: East, West, Sex, Death, Echo, →ISBN. From the entry Boyztown
  • Apparently this was planned before the whiskey-and-weed bull session on The Joe Rogan Experience.2018 November 30, Elizabeth Lopatto, “Why so many people think Elon Musk is a hero — or a villain”, in The Verge, archived from the…. From the entry bull session
  • A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull.2018 July 8, “'I Was Going To Die': Man Gored By Bull In Tracy”, in CBS News. From the entry Tracy
  • More carnally, on his way to face Mot, Baʿal mates with a cow, engendering bull offspring.2015, Eric Orlin, Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry Baʿal
  • After a postshot round of beers, the mechanical bull started up.2011, Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, →ISBN. From the entry postshot
  • We threw the bull with the other cops before heading back.2005, F. P. Lione [pseudonym; Frank Lione, Pam Lione], The Crossroads: A Novel, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Fleming H. Revell, →ISBN, page 288. From the entry throw the bull
  • I tie off the bow line while he secures the stem to the bull rail.2002, Mike McConnell, Bear Tales and Deer Trails, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry bull rail
  • We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle.1999, Kathleen Jo Ryan, Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words, page 99. From the entry marble
  • Egyptian princesses were buried with sacred bulls to promote princessian fertility.1998, Jhan Hochman, Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory, University of Idaho Press, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry princessian

Meaning of bull

  1. noun Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
  2. noun Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
  3. noun A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

Full definition of bull

Questions about bull in a sentence

How do you use bull in a sentence?
Bull is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “He bulled his way in.”
What is a short sentence with bull?
“a bull elephant”
What does bull mean?
Bull means specifically, one that is uncastrated.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bull (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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