heifer

Example Sentences

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The heifer has now been returned home, and is said to be "fit and well".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

His brother, David Workman, killed in a fall off a cliff as he rode a mule in the dark in search of a lost heifer.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

On that October morning in 2018, Ethan found his father dead in the heifer shed, his raincoat draped neatly over a door nearby.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Female heifer cows who haven’t birthed new calves are part of that culling, USA Today reports, meaning that there will be fewer beef cows available for slaughter in the next year or so.

From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2022

We’d kept hoping that the heifer Spot would get over whatever was wrong with her.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson