OX in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for OX, such as:

1. If the ox falls, whet your knife.
2. The black ox has trod on his foot.
3. You cannot flay the same ox twice.
4. The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go.
5. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.

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 Meanings and Examples of OX
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ox
 n.  any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos
 n.  an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Then farm wagons, ox carts and even private carriages commandeered by the medical corps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  She found Carey Ashburn on the bottom layer of wounded in an ox cart, barely alive from a bullet wound in his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  He is the great prize ox of the sea, too fat to be delicately good.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
5  He layed down on that bunk-bed, close to the ox stalls, where he always slept.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
6  Presently Ambrosch said sullenly in English: 'You take them ox tomorrow and try the sod plough.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
7  He told me which was the in-hand ox, and which the off-hand one.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Miss Watson's nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV.
9  Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
10  Lead two sheep to the butcher's, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
11  A dull and heavy sound was heard, and the man dropped like an ox on his face, and then turned over on his back.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
12  They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it, and made it fast with the forestays; then they hoisted their white sails aloft with ropes of twisted ox hide.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
13  They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it and made it fast with the forestays, and they hoisted their white sails with sheets of twisted ox hide.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
14  During that term he was to be the property of his master, and as much a commodity of bargain and sale as an ox, or a joint-stool.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
15  Like an ox with head bent, submissively he awaited the blow which he felt was lifted over him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
2  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
3  If the ox falls, whet your knife.
4  The black ox has trod on his foot.
5  The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go.
6  You cannot flay the same ox twice.
7  Ah! My child, I know they have both suffered grief. They have has the black ox tread on their feet.
8  Jim had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it.