Example sentences for: ox

How can you use “ox” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here is Skeat fuming at a correspondent who had the gall to suggest that the origin of the Ox - in Oxford , long a bone of etymological contention, could be traced through Usk to a connection with Gaelic uisque `water,' as in uisquebaugh literally `water of life,' from which we get whiskey (etymologically speaking):

  • The center of town looks to the future with new official buildings, housing blocks, and wide avenues, but the traffic evokes nostalgia with its parade of donkey carts, ox carts, pony carts, and farm tractors, plus the usual proliferation of bicycles.

  • The word boustrophedon is used to describe inscriptions that run as the ox ploughs (left to right, then right to left, and back again).

  • In the Oratory of the Crib (Oratorio del Presepio) are the moving 13th-century sculptures of Joseph, the Three Kings, the ox, and the ass, by Arnolfo di Cambio (Mary and the child Jesus are 16th-century additions).

  • $3-- If just one kid comes home from school determined not to covet his neighbor's ox, that will more than make up for his utter ignorance of science and history.


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