ballocks

Example Sentences

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The incident led to calls to keep the bullocks that graze on a nearby common under better control.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

You could hear the tinkling bells of the bullocks driving Persian wells.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2017

Following a pair of bullocks that pulled a wooden plow, a couple of the women dropped seed potatoes in the furrows, which the rest of us covered with manure.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016

"There's a pipe connected to my house, but it never has water," says Antonio da Rocha, who drives a cart pulled by bullocks to fetch water three times a week from a pond.

From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2014

The used plaintain leaves I stacked in one heap—they would do for the bullocks.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya