heifer
Example Sentences
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The heifer has now been returned home, and is said to be "fit and well".
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024
His brother, David Workman, killed in a fall off a cliff as he rode a mule in the dark in search of a lost heifer.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Boyle Reservoir, a black heifer lying on her side in the dusty brown earth heaved a tiny head sticky with amniotic fluid from her birth canal.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023
On that October morning in 2018, Ethan found his father dead in the heifer shed, his raincoat draped neatly over a door nearby.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023
The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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