ox
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One video showed ox carts transporting artillery pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
For the same reason, the government has also had to postpone the annual winter musk ox hunt that was due to start on January 31.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
One of Giovanni's most notable miracles involved healing an ox with a broken leg.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
There has been some success with the Australian government's crown-of-thorns starfish culling programme, which has killed over 50,000 starfish by injecting them with vinegar or ox bile.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
An Irish workman grabs a horse and races ahead for the doctor while the ox cart ambulance rumbles slowly down the half-mile to Cavendish.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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 price of one of Min’s vases—two oxen, a horse, and your first-born son!”
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
With protectionist trade policies, there's a very strong likelihood that there may be more oxes gored than lambs saved.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2017
Partly it’s cultural inertia, but I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that the companies whose oxes are being gored own some of the nation’s tallest soapboxes.
From Forbes ● Jul. 11, 2011
She jumps on the cart and Wilf snaps the reins on his oxes.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Gwineter hitch my oxes side by side, An' take my gal fer a big fine ride.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
"Something about oxes," said Buff vaguely, "and a party," he added.
From The Setons by O. Douglas
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