Example sentences for: oxen

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

  • The region isn’t overly touristed, though; it isn’t unusual to see oxen pulling carts piled high with seaweed for fertilizer.

  • But he is not beyond a grumbling pun on oxen and morons , while looking hard at me.

  • There are a few opponents of corporate welfare who don't instinctively exempt their own oxen from being gored.

  • On one significant issue, the line-item veto, they held firm on an old stance even though doing so meant handing a Democratic president a knife to gore Republican oxen (though they did postpone the day as long as possible and are now contending that Clinton's conception of it is too broad).

  • In this resolutely agricultural region, oxen tilling red-earth fields and cowboy peasants (guajiros) on horseback are much more common than cars.


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