OXEN in a Sentence
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42 example sentences for OXEN, such as:
1. The oxen were shot or poleaxed.
2. Never put the plow before the oxen.
3. He gave me a team of unbroken oxen.
4. Look, what a team of oxen in the farm!
5. In this area oxen are used to pull carts.
2. Never put the plow before the oxen.
3. He gave me a team of unbroken oxen.
4. Look, what a team of oxen in the farm!
5. In this area oxen are used to pull carts.
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Meanings and Examples of OXEN
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oxen
n. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.
2 He slept with the old man and the two boys in the dugout barn, along with the oxen.
3 By the time they paid Krajiek for the land, and bought his horses and oxen and some old farm machinery, they had very little money left.
4 When Ambrosch come in, it was dark and he didn't see nothing, but the oxen acted kind of queer.
5 The horses and oxen would not go into the barn until he was frozen so hard that there was no longer any smell of blood.
6 Ambrosch, she said, was on the north quarter, breaking sod with the oxen.
7 Ambrosch had come in from the north quarter, and was watering his oxen at the tank.
8 Ambrosch was a far-seeing fellow; he soon realized that his oxen were too heavy for any work except breaking sod, and he succeeded in selling them to a newly arrived German.
9 He gave me a team of unbroken oxen.
10 I had never driven oxen before, and of course I was very awkward.
11 My cart was upset and shattered, my oxen were entangled among the young trees, and there was none to help me.
12 After a long spell of effort, I succeeded in getting my cart righted, my oxen disentangled, and again yoked to the cart.
13 I now proceeded with my team to the place where I had, the day before, been chopping wood, and loaded my cart pretty heavily, thinking in this way to tame my oxen.
14 Two head of oxen Acestes, the seed of Troy, gives to each of your ships by tale: invite to the feast your own ancestral gods of the household, and those whom our host Acestes worships.
15 Aeneas and the men of Troy with him feed on the long chines of oxen and the entrails of the sacrifice.
Example Sentence:
1 Never put the plow before the oxen.
2 Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
3 In this area oxen are used to pull carts.
4 The oxen were shot or poleaxed.
5 You sometimes see oxen pulling carts in southern Europe.
6 Look, what a team of oxen in the farm!