How to Use water buffalo in a Sentence

water buffalo

noun

• First the goats, then the cows, then the water buffalo with their long black snouts.
  — Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
• On the drive out, the water buffalo is groaning on the ground.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• So Faythe found a small herd of water buffalo and gave them to David for his birthday.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 June 2021
• But anybody who moves here may have to deal with the water buffalo.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• Cloistered in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, Palanan’s farmers cross fields on the backs of loping water buffaloes.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• There were fewer cars, and herds of water buffalos coming back from the fields.
  — James Syhabout With John Birdsall, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2018
• The crackdown is driving more dairy farmers to swap their cows for water buffaloes.
  — Anindya Upadhyay, Bloomberg.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The 6,000 people who live in the marshes dwell in thatch huts and barns, relying on fishing and the raising of water buffaloes.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• But there are also cheeses made from camel milk, water buffalo milk – even moose milk.
  — Stephanie Clark, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
• The same goes for the water buffalo populations that could also be seen as a pest.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
• As sunset nears, the land exhales with the cough of water buffalo, ticking toads, and an elephant’s trumpet in the distance.
  — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• At one point, a water buffalo toppled into a trench dug for fiber-optic lines and had to be extracted from the mud.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
• The most relentless began near dawn, when, on many days, one of us climbed out of our shared bed at the first sound of a grunting, bawling water buffalo at the front door.
  — Indra Nooyi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
• The large horned animals scrawled on the walls are anoa, a species of water buffalo found only on Sulawesi.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
• An Asiatic water buffalo blocked the road, unimpressed by the Jeep.
  — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• Working with Asian honey bee hives in Vietnam, the team first of all had to collect dung from pigs, chickens, cows, and water buffalo.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 9 Dec. 2020
• Along the highway, palm trees, stray dogs and water buffalo punctuate the dusty landscape.
  — Alfred Miller, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2019
• Just one frog's worth of epibatidine is enough to kill a water buffalo.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2017
• Come the first day of school, some children walk, some catch the bus, and some step into slim wooden boats and paddle their way past galumphing water buffalo.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
• Scrap metal was valuable, so villagers hauled away most of the plane’s wreckage on carts drawn by water buffalo.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• Their life now is isolating, their home a tiny space encased by mud, with a few water buffalo and goats that were on loan but have since had to be returned.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Growing up, Karkare drank water buffalo milk, produced on a small farm in such a way that consumers only got milk that the calf would not drink in any case, says Karkare.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 23 Apr. 2021
• In one instance, a water buffalo, Christmas lights dangling from a gash in its belly, dons S & M gear.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• There was a water buffalo scene that got deleted, what happened?
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2023
• At the zoo, these animals feast on fish, rats and chunks of lamb, but in the wild, Komodo dragons often hunt deer, wild boar and even water buffalo.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
• Each Bateleur Camp guest is lent a pair of Swarovski binoculars to clearly see elephants and water buffalo on bush walks and game drives.
  — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• When Ward bent down to tie Baker's shoes, the drummer grunted and bellowed like a wounded water buffalo.
  — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2013
• The mutton and water buffalo kebabs, topped with liquid butter, melt with each bite.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2023
• Our headlight catches a hobbling water buffalo whose front leg was cut in half by shrapnel.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Many animals also depend on the river for their very survival including river otters, sea birds, and water buffalo.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024