How to Use ewe in a Sentence
ewe
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Four rams, 10 ewes, and four lambs watched me, less than 30 feet away.
—Jim Kristofic, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
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Around mid-August, the ram on HD Farm joins some three dozen ewes in a field.
—Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
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Scot set the shooting sticks and singled out an old ewe.
—Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 17 Dec. 2019
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Until the day a ewe gives birth in the barn and the couple stare at each other, astonished.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
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A Holstein cow can supply nine gallons a day; a good ewe, on a good day, may part with three quarts.
—Janet Fletcher, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2016
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And Courtemanch said a ewe hunt has been authorized only once in Wyoming and rarely in other parts of the West.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2021
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Folk horror film about a couple grieving the loss of a child who adopt a hybrid that is born to an ewe on their lonely farm.
—Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
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With hands stretched wide, Meng Baoyindaogetao backs the ewe into a corner, seizes it by the horns and swings his leg over its back.
—Charlie Campbell / Baotou, Time, 27 July 2017
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At Flat Top's ranch, Cory is one of several ranch hands tasked with tending to about 4,000 breeding ewe.
—Shelbie Harris, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
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The breed, which looks like sheep as imagined by Wallace & Gromit, is marked by a jet-black face, ears, knees, boots, and in the ewe’s case, posteriors.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
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The quantity of milk is measured: At the beginning of the season, each ewe yields about three liters a day, but the volume falls to a liter a day as the season wears on.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
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Myra Ambroglia went into the adult division with a Lincoln ewe.
—Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 6 Sep. 2017
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That passage reminded me of the Sardinian shepherd, coaxing a ewe and her suckling from the flock.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
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But does this mean that ewe would vote for Obama?Sheep laterality.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2013
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Unlike other sheep breeds, Ewenice, who is a merino ewe, does not shed her fleece and needs to be shorn at least annually, the outlet adds.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2020
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In addition to stunts, the show also features many scenes where the vets assist in an animal’s birth: in Series 2, James helps a ewe give birth to a lamb in the first episode and a horse give birth to a colt in the last.
—Wilson Chapman, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
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For example, one night, roaming dogs killed every breeding ewe at HD Farm.
—Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
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But few young people learn how to butcher a 70-pound ewe, and the requirement is one of the biggest reasons fewer women are competing.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
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She was cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a 6-year-old ewe.
—Tony Long, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2007
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The Associated Press reports the jumping sheep was an ewe, or female.
—Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017
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Nearby sits the preternaturally vivid head of a ewe in sandstone, almost life-size and perhaps the oldest object at over 5,000 years.
—Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 18 July 2017
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As of Wednesday afternoon, the Salt Lake County animal control department has received a few tips about where the ewe might have gone.
—Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2021
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Ravioli is filled with local ewe’s milk ricotta, and tagliolinis are served with catches of the day.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 July 2018
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The barn has an assortment of animals for guests to interact with: 24 ewes, 32 lambs, two rams, chickens, a turkey, a horse named Tater, an adorable miniature donkey named Chip, and a handful of goats.
—Jean Chen Smith, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2023
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Tip: Go hungry and ask the cheese stewards for samples of esoteric products like the Fleur de Maquis, a Corsican ewe cheese encased in rosemary and juniper berries.
—Amy Tara Koch, New York Times, 9 May 2018
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Local Basque specialties include Espelette chili pepper, ham, dry sausage, ewe’s cheese, traditional cream cake and wines.
—Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
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The film visually withholds key details in its first 30 minutes, but the birth of one particular ewe lamb astonishes Maria and Ingvar into stunned wonderment.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
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While the new mom and dad enjoy this growing sense of family, various obstacles arise – including a mama ewe that's mad as hell – in a sometimes absurd, constantly intriguing exploration of man and nature.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2021
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María has her moments of ferocity, usually directed at a particular ewe.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
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Four rams, 10 ewes, and four lambs watched me, less than 30 feet away.
—Jim Kristofic, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
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