How to Use cud in a Sentence

cud

noun
  • So grateful to have a chance to chew this cud with you.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 17 Dec. 2016
  • Cows chewed the cud, unfazed by our bike in their zone.
    Marlise Kast-Myers, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 July 2017
  • The animal must have both a split hoof and chew its cud.
    Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
  • For now, the sheep and ram are lying in the Hannahs' fenced backyard, chewing their cud.
    Kelsey Lindsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Giraffes eat most of the time and, like cows, regurgitate food and chew it as cud.
    National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
  • His system, unlike Ida, doesn't track cud-chewing or use AI to tell him which cows to watch or what to do.
    Drew Harwell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Did the ox clack its hooves together, or chew its cud rhythmically?
    Dave Barry, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
  • On a steady platform, their research concluded, heifers likely won't spew their cud.
    Laura Mallonee, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • That was when his team showed that BovB in cows and other cud-chewing mammals is most similar to the versions in pythons and vipers—and likely descended from them.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Not infrequently, giraffes looking at us would lick their lips with their 18-inch tongues—not in any expressive way, just as a byproduct of cud-chewing.
    Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Like cows, buffalo chew cud to further extract nutrients.
    Kylie Mohr, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019

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