Synonyms

1. cattle
2. bos taurus
3. kine
4. cows

Sentence Examples

1. But no one paid any attention to two old woodsmen and the filthy, scruffy-looking youths who worked the oxen.
2. It was drawn by four plodding oxen all covered with black housings on each horn they had fixed a large lighted wax taper, and on the top of the cart was constructed a raised seat, on which sat a venerable old man with a beard whiter than the very snow, and so long that it fell below his waist he was dressed in a long robe of black buckram for as the cart was thickly set with a multitude of candles it was easy to make out everything that was on it.
3. The defenders had used oxen and chains and rived a twenty-foot hole in the middle of the road.
4. I stored the boat with the carcasses of a hundred oxen and three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready dressed as four hundred cooks could provide.
5. Thus slowly and silently they made, it might be, two leagues, until they reached a valley which the carter thought a convenient place for resting and feeding his oxen, and he said so to the curate, but the barber was of opinion that they ought to push on a little farther, as at the other side of a hill which appeared close by he knew there was a valley that had more grass and much better than the one where they proposed to halt and his advice was taken and they continued their journey.
6. The carter at once unyoked the oxen and left them to roam at large about the pleasant green spot, the freshness of which seemed to invite, not enchanted people like Don Quixote, but wide-awake, sensible folk like his squire, who begged the curate to allow his master to leave the cage for a little for if they did not let him out, the prison might not be as clean as the propriety of such a gentleman as his master required.
7. As the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and a half, more or less their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations downwards, till you come to the smallest, which to my sight were almost invisible but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
8. I motioned the lads to turn the oxen down a side street.
9. London Bridge, and the crossing, had been defended with fifteen men and two teams of oxen that had been hurriedly herded onto the wooden structure.
10. The conveyances continuously got stuck in the huge drifts that blew across the road, and his men were forced to push them until the wheels were free enough for the oxen to continue on.