Example sentences for: cattle

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

  • They developed a primitive agriculture, domesticating cattle and cultivating corn, beans, chili peppers, and squash (a pumpkin-like vegetable) in burned clearings in the jungle.

  • "More French slurry," the headline over an editorial in the Times of London Wednesday, neatly linked the scandal over what France feeds its cattle with another mess that has forced the resignation of French Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

  • Ironically, there was plenty of food around — corn, cattle, sheep, and flour — but it was not available to the poor.

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...

  • It is thus synonymous with wild land (also so used in American English) or with the apparently contradictory wild government ground described in 1849 as covered with trees and grass never used before, except for feeding blackfellows, kangaroos, cattle, horses and sheep.


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