oxen

Example Sentences

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How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

They put one broken half of Plymouth Rock into the wagon, and the 30 oxen had an easier trip up Cole’s Hill, and they deposited it beside the liberty pole.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024

Looking back I could just make out the blade lumpy shapes of the oxen and the cart, with Father fighting along at their heads.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier