Example sentences for: ox

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

  • broad and narrow oxgang the amount of land that could be cultivated by an ox, between eight and ten acres

  • In winter, the gaur, the world’s largest wild ox, almost 2 m (6 ft) high at the shoulder, comes out of its hideaway in the Siwalik Hills on the park’s southern edge in search of young grass.

  • The Temple of the Source of Law (Fayuan Si), near the Ox Street Mosque, dates from the Tang Dynasty (696) and houses a national Buddhist college and religious publishing house.

  • You’ll also find Portuguese carved ox yokes, a roomful of iron keys, old sewing machines, canes, wind-up toys — in short an endless catalogue of art and artifacts.

  • That word boustrophedon describes writing that goes from left to right on the first line, then right to left on the second, then left to right on the third, and so on; it comes from a Greek word describing the turning in a field of an ox and plow.


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