How to Use cud in a Sentence
cud
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So grateful to have a chance to chew this cud with you.
—Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 17 Dec. 2016
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Cows chewed the cud, unfazed by our bike in their zone.
—Marlise Kast-Myers, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 July 2017
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The animal must have both a split hoof and chew its cud.
—Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
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For now, the sheep and ram are lying in the Hannahs' fenced backyard, chewing their cud.
—Kelsey Lindsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Sep. 2017
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Giraffes eat most of the time and, like cows, regurgitate food and chew it as cud.
—National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
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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
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Did the ox clack its hooves together, or chew its cud rhythmically?
—Dave Barry, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
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On a steady platform, their research concluded, heifers likely won't spew their cud.
—Laura Mallonee, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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Like cows, buffalo chew cud to further extract nutrients.
—Kylie Mohr, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019
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