Words similar to oxen

Example sentences for: oxen

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

In this resolutely agricultural region, oxen tilling red-earth fields and cowboy peasants (guajiros) on horseback are much more common than cars.
It means what it says: ford where oxen cross.
Cigar-chomping guajiros in enormous straw hats urge on their oxen, while vultures swoop overhead.
On one significant issue, the line-item veto, they held firm on an old stance even though doing so meant handing a Democratic president a knife to gore Republican oxen (though they did postpone the day as long as possible and are now contending that Clinton's conception of it is too broad).
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.