- plural of ox.
oxen
Example Sentences
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When I was pulling the oxen in the fields, my dad would tell me, “The farrows; they should be straight,” for that simple reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A two-hour drive west of Havana, in rural Consolacion del Sur, the picture is much the same for farmer Fidel Maqueira, who spends his nights guarding his oxen against theft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
When that stopped paying out, he used his oxen to feed the town of Bodie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
The busyness that went on in the island, the bee-keeping and the rook-scaring and the ploughing with oxen: for these you must look in the Lutterell Psalter, where they are beautifully drawn.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
