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Example sentences for: oxen

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There are a few opponents of corporate welfare who don't instinctively exempt their own oxen from being gored.
Later an acre was a strip of open field, large enough to be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day.
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.
Solvey, as everyone called him, kept Holstein oxen and Suffolk sheep.
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).