How to Use ox in a Sentence

ox

noun
  • Then there’s the tale of the nun who was crushed by an ox on the working farm.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • His ox, Babe, weighed 5 tons and had the strength of nine horses.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But an ox, harnessed to a plow, could do the same amount of work in a fraction of the time.
    Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The cucumber stands in for the ox, which stands in for the human: a life for a life for a life.
    New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem.
    Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 28 Nov. 2022
  • He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox.
    Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2019
  • Kylin is a fantasy beast comprised of the body of a deer, tail of an ox, feet of a horse and scales of a fish.
    Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Much of the lumber came by ox-cart from Jefferson, in East Texas.
    Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • In decades past, this iconic Jamaican dish was once prepared with the tail of an ox.
    Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • At one beef party, an ox was slaughtered and the video was shared online.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • Enter Babe, who's not your usual blue ox, if there is such a thing.
    Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
  • As usual, parties, fetes and ox roasts were held across the country.
    Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022
  • Woods is strong as an ox and won’t get thrown to the ground the way some of his nose tackle predecessors were.
    Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Which raises the question: HOW, exactly, did the ox and lamb keep time?
    Dave Barry, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Always in great shape, strong as an ox and a really good dude.
    Dallas News, 29 July 2022
  • When dinner was served (a hearty ox and vegetable stew), the topic switched to polar bears.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2015
  • Daeho also serves beef and ox bone soups and bibimbap in stone pots.
    Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But note, there’s no stable mentioned or ox or ass mooning over the child.
    Rick Hamlin and Bloomberg, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Researchers first sifted the amino acid taurine from a sample of ox bile in 1827.
    Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • Tidbit: Every branch has an ox yoke and a horseshoe over the door and a traffic light over the restrooms.
    Tom Sietsema, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • On one of their trips, Shrem recalled, the two ventured off a trail and Hedaya had a close encounter with an ox.
    Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • The visit takes a bizarre turn when Amat starts having visions of a massive blood-red ox in the house.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Next come the fried ox testicles, followed by the pours and pours of homemade grappa.
    Eliot Stein, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The overconfident tiger was sure to arrive first but arrived third after the rat and the ox.
    Marilisa Barbieri, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Don't just watch your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fall down in the road and do nothing about it.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 June 2022
  • But Jesus responds with do not all of you on the Sabbath lead an ox or donkey to water?
    Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Elk, wolves, reindeer, or musk oxen eat the dead grass underneath the snow by pushing the snow away with their horns, snouts, or hooves.
    National Geographic, 28 May 2017
  • Cow and the various permutations of cow and ox and bull gets into a whole thing.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The animal signs rotate each new year in this order: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There are 12 different animals in the race: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
    Julie Lin, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024

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