ox

Example Sentences

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One of Giovanni's most notable miracles involved healing an ox with a broken leg.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

"After all, it is an ox that pulls a cart, not a goat."

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 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

Galileo’s first telescope had a usable magnification of 8x; by the beginning of 1610 he had managed to produce one that had a magnification of 3 ox and he had begun to explore the heavens.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton