ox
Example Sentences
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One of Giovanni's most notable miracles involved healing an ox with a broken leg.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026
The patrolmen are equipped with rifles and handguns, to be used as a last resort against angry polar bears and musk ox.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
There has been some success with the Australian government's crown-of-thorns starfish culling programme, which has killed over 50,000 starfish by injecting them with vinegar or ox bile.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
“He lost his own son in war. He love his son the way I love you. But your jiichan is right, he will loan you his ox for nothing if you have nothing.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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