ox
Example Sentences
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They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.
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
They had an open front space where items of food were laid out, in this example loaves of bread, a lettuce and an ox's head.
From BBC
Therefore, the official order for the zodiac animals is as follows: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
From Salon
"They say he's strong as an ox, leaps tall buildings in a single bound, we don't have that kind of warped reality on our side."
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
