Example sentences for: oxen

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

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

  • There are a few opponents of corporate welfare who don't instinctively exempt their own oxen from being gored.

  • But he is not beyond a grumbling pun on oxen and morons , while looking hard at me.

  • 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 .

  • Later an acre was a strip of open field, large enough to be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day.


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