Example sentences for: horned

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

  • Hottest spot in the region, down by the American border, is Osoyoos, nestling in the mountains around a good swimming lake and pocket-sized but honest-to-goodness desert complete with cactus, sagebrush, rattlesnakes, coyotes, and horned toads.

  • They come fluted like a Doric column and mottled and horned like a Holstein cow.

  • A jackalope is an imaginary horned rabbit, reputedly inhabiting West Texas.

  • He has devised a neat bit of business for the great Max Wright, whose speech about impersonating "the horned moon" is now a hasty impromptu.

  • St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.


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