cow
Example Sentences
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The company’s advertising arm has long been a lucrative cash cow that is still managing double-digit growth rates.
To protect the government’s cash cow, politicians avoided meddling in PdVSA, which was run by highly trained engineers and other professionals.
Meanwhile ordinary people, lacking the specialized knowledge to draw their own conclusions, feel cowed into going along with it all.
Wander around all day with a bunch of cows?
From Literature
The work is often difficult and disorienting, but the show’s aim is not to cow viewers into submission.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
