How to Use bovine in a Sentence

bovine

1 of 2 adjective

• She stared at us with a stupid, bovine expression.
• The calves were all black and tiny for bovine newborns.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 8 June 2018
• Both bovine species now roam freely throughout the refuge.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• Cow and beef both derive from *gwou-, a PIE root that referred to all things bovine.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
• His grace moved me like the flourish of a cape, an attack of violins, a sword to the heart of me, bovine, adoring.
  — Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
• Cows feet and the occasional bloody bovine head hang at the butcher stalls.
  — Lindsay Cohn, ELLE Decor, 6 Mar. 2018
• Elephants can contract both the human and bovine strains.
  — National Geographic, 4 Sep. 2020
• In total, the bovine airlift is expected to bring in the 4,000 cows within about a month.
  — Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
• Made of bovine suede leather with crepe rubber outsoles and cotton laces, these stylish, low boots are easy to dress up or down.
  — Sarah Crow, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2022
• The bovine genome belonged to a bison, and its mtDNA can be found in living bison.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2021
• Suspect foiled by bovine crime fighters Cows herd suspect and police milk the chase video.
  — CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• Is there anything more sustainable, and less bovine, than oats?
  — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
• The challenge, then, is getting yeast to make bovine collagen.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• The designers and the don The bullet-riddled corpse, lying face-up on a street in Medellin in March 1996, was that of a large man with a bovine head and scraggly beard.
  — Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• The only bovine case has been confirmed in Boulder County.
  — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• For city folk, that's an eye-opening bovine palpation scene that engulfs farmer Mackenzie Davis' arm in the back end of a cow.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 June 2020
• Each bag of collagen has 41 servings and 11g of type I and type III bovine collagen.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• All of the precautions lessen the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• Today around 120 feral buffaloes live in Hong Kong, alongside ten times as many of their bovine cousins, brown cows.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• The moose lifted his head in bovine oblivion and turned to the camera, plants draping his antlers, water running down his droopy face.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 29 Sep. 2020
• Instead, these pieces were carved from bone — probably good old bovine bones of some nature.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 1 June 2022
• The National Western Stock Show is more than a celebration of all things equine and bovine.
  — Max Siegelbaum, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
• Big-eyed cattle still graze in the field just to the south, offering a closeup bovine encounter for curious city kids.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2017
• As with tuberculosis, the risk for bovine TB is heightened outside the US.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Sep. 2019
• Distinguished by handlebar horns and long hair, this high-altitude bovine cousin of the cow grazes across the grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• In the organic, bovine growth hormones, or bGH, residue levels were found to be 0.5 nanograms per milliliter.
  — Rebekah Tuchscherer, USA TODAY, 26 June 2019
• The foresters work with the cattle ranchers to manage fencing and other bovine herding issues.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
• This bovine obsession hints at a bigger lurch toward the right in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
  — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• Crutzen and others, thus confirmed that growing bovine numbers, were one of the largest factors behind the rise of methane emissions.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
• There’s a bovine sweetness to the performance of former action-movie star Brendan Fraser.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023

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bovine

2 of 2 noun

• There were bovines birthed all over the place last night.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2017
• And in the end, Bambi may be the most valuable bovine around.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
• The film shows an actual bovine perched atop one of the floats.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• Weighing in at up to a tonne, the bison is one beefy bovine.
  — Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022
• Even these bovine seemed to be among the happy-to-be-moving-again crowd.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• One of our neighbors placed a full-size statue of a bovine on his roof.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• Also, some may want to note the softgels are made from bovine (cow) gelatin.
  — Willow Jarosh, Ms, Rd, Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• But that same sleight-of-hand, accompanied by the scream of the engine’s whistle, saved the bovine in the nick of time.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Hey, Colorado, ya stinkin’ bovine bums, don’t let the door hit’cha in your hairy Rocky Mountain rumps.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 27 July 2023
• At Mountain Horse Farm, the bovines are never milked and will never be used as a source of meat.
  — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
• The life-size bovine who lives on John’s gable has turned in her rainbow Pride scarf for a red, white and blue rocket.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
• The bovine had charged at a family of four, knocking some of them to the ground, officials said.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• The bovine was seen as a crucial ally in taming — and then claiming — the wildest of terrain.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Video posted on Facebook showed some of the bovine floating down the river, their heads up for air.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 June 2019
• The owners were also on hand, trying to track down and corral the fugitive bovine.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
• The bovine was struck within a hundred yards of the family’s front porch, according to the farm’s post.
  — al, 16 May 2022
• The 6-inch long, 3-inch wide vessel has an opening along the bovine’s back and her tail forms a handle big enough to get a finger through.
  — Juliet Izon, wsj.com, 26 Sep. 2023
• And the licking is a way of showing affection and bonding among bovine.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2020
• Pembroke Pines police described the bovine as a large, brown female brown cow with a white head.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• The cabin's intoxicating leather might gain the approval of even the bovine from which it was snatched.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
• Demand for brisket is at an all-time high and for every bovine, there are only two to tango.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2023
• The firefighters, three of whom are dairy farmers, used ropes, slings and their hands to pull and push the beefy bovine to the shallow end of the pool before steering him to the steps.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• The bovine escaped her pen at a farm in Warsaw, Poland, three moths ago and has been running free with wild bison in the area ever since.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• The bovine coronavirus did not cause the current outbreak in humans.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2020
• There might be some type of cow-spiracy going on, because evidently, this isn't the first bovine to hit the road in NYC.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Teen Vogue, 17 Oct. 2017
• Each bovine was designed by a New England artist and will be displayed around the area through Labor Day weekend.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Big game species include Himalayan tahr, a type of wild goat; chamois, a goat-antelope bovine; and wapiti deer.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• That bovine colostrum is similar in makeup to human colostrum.
  — Rebecca Jaspan, Mph, Rd, Health, 26 Oct. 2023
• Most colostrum supplements on the market are sourced from bovine (cow) colostrum, but they can be sourced from other mammalian milk as well.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 13 Feb. 2024
• The grave also contained ribs and bones of four other horses, a dog skull, and bovine remains that may have been offerings of food.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024