HOOF in a Sentence

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74 example sentences for HOOF, such as:

1. Boxer's split hoof was a long time in healing.
2. After his hoof had healed up, Boxer worked harder than ever.
3. At length, Charley Bates expressed his opinion that it was time to pad the hoof.
4. Aging deer, on the hoof, by their body characteristics is a much more reliable way.
5. In the evenings he would admit privately to Clover that the hoof troubled him a great deal.

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hoof
 n.  horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  Back in the yard Boxer was pawing with his hoof at the stable-lad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
5  Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollie's stall and turned over the straw with her hoof.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
6  Boxer saw them coming and put out his great hoof, caught a dog in mid-air, and pinned him to the ground.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
7  Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go, whereat Boxer lifted his hoof, and the dog slunk away, bruised and howling.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
9  Boxer's split hoof was a long time in healing.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  In the evenings he would admit privately to Clover that the hoof troubled him a great deal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
11  Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less hard.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
12  After his hoof had healed up, Boxer worked harder than ever.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
13  If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
14  At length, Charley Bates expressed his opinion that it was time to pad the hoof.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  The soft earth was scarred with hoof prints and heavy wheels and the vegetables were mashed into the soil.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence:
1  Aging deer, on the hoof, by their body characteristics is a much more reliable way.