Example sentences for: ox

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

  • The center of town looks to the future with new official buildings, housing blocks, and wide avenues, but the traffic evokes nostalgia with its parade of donkey carts, ox carts, pony carts, and farm tractors, plus the usual proliferation of bicycles.

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

  • Gore the Ox

  • Here is Skeat fuming at a correspondent who had the gall to suggest that the origin of the Ox - in Oxford , long a bone of etymological contention, could be traced through Usk to a connection with Gaelic uisque `water,' as in uisquebaugh literally `water of life,' from which we get whiskey (etymologically speaking):


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