cud

Example Sentences

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She said it was "so lovely that anybody would bother to come up and chew the cud with you for a while"

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains, and crop waste into muscle and milk.

From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023

As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains and crop waste into muscle and milk.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023

He can chew on his voice like a cow chews its cud.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

She and Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and Harry was left to find the softest bit of floor he could and to cud up under the thinnest, most ragged blanket.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling