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
• Much of that is enteric methane, which is produced when cud-chewing animals like cows digest their food.
  — Fortune, 2 June 2021
• Like cows, buffalo chew cud to further extract nutrients.
  — Kylie Mohr, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024