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• He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.From the entry kid
• The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.From the entry battner
• As the day draws on, the oxen will begin to show fatigue.From the entry draw on
• The ox stood lolling in the furrow.From the entry loll
• Common varieties of quaq include caribou, seal, fish, and musk ox.2015, Alicia Z. Klepeis, The World's Strangest Foods. From the entry quaq
• An ox is killed for the servants when they begin to salt the winter meat at Martinmas.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
• All farm carriage was by pack-horse, except that oxen were sometimes yoked to harvest or dung-sledges ('gurry-buts').2013, Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution, Routledge, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry gurry-butt
• Ox launched himself at the fat man, hitting him square in his beer belly.2011 02, Robert Thornhill, Lady Justice Takes a C.R.A.P., Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry rangoon
• Vinge said, it’s possible that artificial post-humans would use us the way we’ve used oxen and donkeys.2008 August 26, John Tierney, quoting Vernor Vinge, “Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry posthuman
• “I use oxen to plow my fields, so it's foxen that I'm trying to get rid of.”2007, Richard Lederer, Word Wizard, page 124. From the entry foxen
• But then ya'll only have two oxen if ya do that, Mrs.2006, J. R. Reynolds, Sustenance of Courage, page 281. From the entry ya'll
• "It's obvious that the ox is in the ditch big time," said Sen.2001 May 15, “Senators seek Postal Service overhaul”, in USA Today, retrieved 07 Nov 2008. From the entry ox is in the ditch
• The wheelbench was tied to the "necking stick," or yoke of the oxen.1992, Ann Fears Crawford, Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Women in Texas, page 16. From the entry wheelbench
• Johnson always announced the onset of catastrophe with the statement: "The ox is in the ditch!"1987 March 6, George Reedy, “Can the President Still Lead?”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Nov 2008. From the entry ox is in the ditch
• We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin. From the entry unslaughtered
• Kvigr walked the oxen cart between the huts.2015, Christian Bullock, Deathstalker: Of the Line of Mer. From the entry oxen
• He had a great heavy jaw and shoulders like an ox and bore no resemblance to Maurice Leonard.2014, Jessica Stirling, Shamrock Green. From the entry fright
• The arrendator also had a large number of oxen, cows, and horses, as well as workers and servants.2008, Mordekhai Nadav, Mark Mirsky, The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880, page 207. From the entry arrendator
• Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.2005, Philip Cornwel-Smith, John Goss, Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture, page 46. From the entry skylab
• And the ploughman is with his oxen.1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1994, page 24. From the entry fleshly
• “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs.1989 December, Shulin Deng, “Sound the Alarm on Population Growth”, in Current World Leaders, volume 32, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1038. From the entry Xin'an
• The wheels were solid, two half discs dowelled against the hub, and the chariots were pulled along by oxen or asses.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 79. From the entry dowel
• Galamanders, drawn by oxen or horses, transported the blocks to the cutting sheds, which were usually located near the wharfs.1956 August 12, Esther E[lizabeth] Wood, “Granite quarries brought prosperity to Maine coastal areas”, in Portland Sunday Telegram and…. From the entry galamander
• “Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.1932 March 6, “Fishing Through Ice Is Thrill”, in The Spokesman-Review, 49th year, number 297, Spokane, Wash., part four, page 1. From the entry whitefish
• Don’t you play the giddy ox with me!1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry debag
• "Don't play the giddy ox," said Philip.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 47. From the entry giddy
• You wouldn't know her from Adam's off ox.1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XXXIX, in Jennie Gerhardt. From the entry know someone from Adam's off ox
• He took a great gulp of wine from an oxen horn goblet and with a sigh slammed it down on the conference table.2015, Amulon Theophilus, Elomaneck: Duraban Rebels. From the entry oxen
• And most of those grasseaters like horses, ox, camels, and llamas had shown early appearance on earth and since its early Cainozoic.2010, Anwar A Abdullah, East West - Sword and Word, page 289. From the entry grasseater
• The fresh meat was sausaged into the tripes of pig and deer and ox, because the time for salting was not yet come.a. 1994, John James, edited by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews, The Fourth Gwenevere, Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus Editions Ltd.…. From the entry sausage
• Most people, it can be allowed, acquire an ox for purposes of ploughing, and a gorer is not satisfactory for that purpose.1992, Roman A. Ohrenstein, Barry Gordon, Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics, E.…. From the entry gorer
• The oxen took up again their quiet processional gait and the old man walked ahead of them, his eyes on the ground.1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, published 1932, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 70. From the entry processional
• If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.2016, James E. Harding, The Love of David and Jonathan. From the entry drinking-cup
• Bovine stock, for example, is now particularized under no fewer than eight categories: oxen, bulls, cows, heifers, three-year-old steers (bovetti), two-year-old bullocks (boviculi), yearlings, and calves.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
• She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry meat pie
• Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry culture
• And from the hedge came the silken slither of snakes about to lather with foam and strike some legless sheep or ox left by the mutinous pack.1926, Eric Walrond, Tropic Death, Boni & Liveright, page 201. From the entry slither
• Procuratory action against George Scot, Gilbert Makkeppet and Thomas McKeine for spoliation of four oxen, price 30 s. apiece, from the lands of Drumganis within the provostry of Linclowdane.1918, Scotland. Privy Council, The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes - Volume 2, page 302. From the entry procuratory

Meaning of ox

1. noun An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
2. noun Any bovine animal (genus Bos).

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Questions about ox in a sentence

How do you use ox in a sentence?

Ox is used as a noun. For example: “He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.”

What is a short sentence with ox?

“a yoke of oxen”

What does ox mean?

Ox means an adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.