How to Use bull in a Sentence

bull

noun
  • With a little guidance, the bull slid through the snow right to the road.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Mejia sprints out of his home with a bat like a bull when the gate opens.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • What do the animals — a bull, a horse and a bird — have to do with it?
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But the big, standing bulls of Tultepec mark the high point of the year.
    Fernanda Pesce and Alexis Triboulard, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The bulls of the AI world—and its current kingmakers—still hold the high ground.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t give up; this is just the start of a bull run—forward and upward!
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The bull elephant seal charged into the ocean after the pup and pushed it to shore with its head, the study said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The bulls are also judged in the scoring for each rider.
    Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And a car with a bull sitting in the passenger seat turns heads.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The pit bull pup smiles and jumps happily throughout the clip.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • In the heat of the summer, a cow or bull needs about 1 gallon of water a day per 100 pounds of body weight.
    oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • In the crest, Carson created the bull with a pile of dung under him.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The lion and the bull became friends, and the jackals were promoted to the first rank by the grateful monarch.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The bulls blood, mild but nutty, will change with other greens based on the season.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The bull stops short of stomping him with its front hooves and just stares the man down before plodding away.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Male bison, also called bulls, weigh up to 2,000 pounds and stand six feet tall.
    Eduardo Medina, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • If eight seconds is achieved, both bull and rider are scored.
    Anne M. Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Revuelto was a fighting bull, a celebrity in the arenas of Barcelona in the 1880s.
    WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That would mean oil prices would need to spike all the way to $140, a level that not even the biggest oil bulls are calling for.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The bull was loose for about three to four minutes before rodeo staff corralled it again.
    Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Long-term bond yields fell around 0.13 percentage point as prices rose, a boon for bond bulls.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Campos warns that this energy can be fleeting, so grab the bull by the horns and get things done.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And yes, there's a Texas-sized dance floor, mechanical bull and karaoke.
    Robin Soslow, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The largest bulls in a herd will gather these groups of cows and try to keep them separate from other bulls.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Up on his feet and out of his crease to take away the angle, the classic style of the day, Gilbert tumbled backward in a heap like a felled bull.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • One man whose face was bashed in by a bull last year said at least seven other people worked on the farm.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
  • At the end of the video, the bull moose attacks, tearing off the snow machine’s windshield and knocking the camera and a helmet out of the man’s hands.
    Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The kids can try cattle roping and ride a pony, a mechanical bull or the Li’l Grand train.
    Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Gilmore Oil advertised on the outfield fence, as did 7-Up, which paid $100 to a batter who hit the bulls-eye on its sign.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The pit bull mix paints canvases with his tongue and paws—with a little help from humans.
    Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023

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