Example sentences for: cow

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

  • You could see The Rules as a weird fantasia on the theme of, "Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?"

  • In this case, `to play hooky' has nothing to do with a cow: vaca is short for the word for `vacation,' that is, if you're not in school you're creating a vacancy, a void.

  • The same is true for Honey's assumptions about Buddha , which he implies is universally pronounced in AE with the vowel of boot ; about Moscow , the second syllable of which is not always rhymed in AE with cow ; about Nepal , which is pronounced identically to the British (RP) way by many AE speakers; and about Vietnam , the -nam of which, contrary to the author's information, is pronounced by many AE speakers to rhyme with dam , not palm . As for Pakistan , Americans tend to give both a sounds the same quality, whether they rhyme them with that in father or in man . On the other hand, the pronunciation of Afghanistan in Britain follows either the pattern of Pakistan , which has the a of man in the first syllable and that of father in the last, or, as in America, is heard with the a of man in both positions.

  • China won't dare go to war over Taiwan, and America's firm stance will cow Beijing, which caves at any show of U.S. strength.

  • Indian troops were trained to bite the cartridges before loading their rifles, but some were greased with animal fat and the Indians felt they were ingesting either fat from the cow, sacred to the Hindus, or lard from the pig, abomination to the Muslims.


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