Example sentences for: ox

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

  • In the Oratory of the Crib (Oratorio del Presepio) are the moving 13th-century sculptures of Joseph, the Three Kings, the ox, and the ass, by Arnolfo di Cambio (Mary and the child Jesus are 16th-century additions).

  • Southwest of Tiananmen Square, in the city’s Xuanwu District, is the Ox Street Mosque (Niu Jie Qingzhen Si), the center of Beijing’s most vibrant Muslem quarter.

  • The older buildings (dating back to the Qing Dynasty) house Manchurian tigers, Tibetan yaks, snow leopards, and Père David’s deer, known to the Chinese as the “quadruple unlikeness” (sibuxiang) because it has characteristics of the deer, the reindeer, the ox, and the donkey.

  • 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.

  • Whose Ox is Gore?


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