cud
Example Sentences
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She said it was "so lovely that anybody would bother to come up and chew the cud with you for a while"
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains, and crop waste into muscle and milk.
From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023
As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains and crop waste into muscle and milk.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
He can chew on his voice like a cow chews its cud.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
In those days they were all milked by hand, and I loved to watch the dairymaid squirt the white milk into her pail while the cow placidly chewed its cud.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
