Example sentences for: oxen

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

  • All of these colonies were set up in the same way, with streets wide enough to ensure a full team of oxen could turn around.

  • In this resolutely agricultural region, oxen tilling red-earth fields and cowboy peasants (guajiros) on horseback are much more common than cars.

  • We coax balking people like reluctant draft animals with carrot and stick , get them back into harness after a holiday, yoke them to co-workers like oxen, drive them hard as part of a team .

  • You’ll see gaggles of geese and ducks waddling along the riverbanks, burdened donkeys treading steadfastly homeward, and oxen compliantly tilling the fields.

  • Cigar-chomping guajiros in enormous straw hats urge on their oxen, while vultures swoop overhead.


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