COWS in a Sentence

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Then there was silence; and a cow coughed; and that led her to say how odd it was, as a child, she had never feared cows, only horses.

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 Meanings and Examples of COWS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cow
 n.  the mature female of cattle
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
4  The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  One of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
7  After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
8  Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
9  The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  Then there was silence; and a cow coughed; and that led her to say how odd it was, as a child, she had never feared cows, only horses.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
11  A hen strayed in; a file of cows passed the door; then a sheep dog; then the cowman, Bond, who stopped.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
12  Uninvited, unexpected, droppers-in, lured off the high road by the very same instinct that caused the sheep and the cows to desire propinquity, they had come.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
13  The cows were motionless; the brick wall, no longer sheltering, beat back grains of heat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
14  Yet the stage was empty; only the cows moved in the meadows; only the tick of the gramophone needle was heard.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
15  The cows, making a step forward, then standing still, were saying the same thing to perfection.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon laboring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
2  A farmer cannot neglect his diurnal tasks at any time; cows, for example, must be milked regularly.
3  Filled with browsing cows and bleating sheep, the meadow was a charmingly bucolic sight.
4  We are in strolling distance of cows, sheep and the occasional swan.
5  He took up a little blue and yaller picture of some cows and a boy, and says: "What's this?" "It's something they give me for learning my lessons good."
6  Many good cows have evil calves.
7  His picture of cows won a prize.
8  Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
9  In India the cow is a sacred animal.
10  The cow is a domestic animal.
11  If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
12  The cow answered to its cowboy's touch.
13  The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
14  The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
15  The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.