How to Use cattle in a Sentence

cattle

plural noun
  • Schafer, 54, and her husband took over the cattle part of the farm.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
  • The villagers toiled in a scene of horror: The air was filled with the stench of dead cattle.
    Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Now, there is a barn for goats, pigs and cattle at the center.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • His cattle only have the shade of a neem tree to fend off heat stress.
    Time, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The cattle outbreaks seemed to slow briefly toward the end of the summer.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The ranch was first homesteaded in 1915 and used as a cattle farm.
    Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Track the breathing rates of cattle and their calves on a livestock farm?
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The virus has spread across cattle herds in Texas to humans and chickens.
    Jonel Aleccia, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Over the next two days, the police harassed and jailed Maasai who grazed cattle in the area.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In short, the world has an awful lot of cattle, which translates to a lot of emissions.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2024
  • At the age of 9, Leclerc worked on cattle farms near his house to earn a little money to help his mother.
    Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Most of the small cattle and wheat farm has been in Sherwood’s family for over 130 years.
    Tim Evans, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Fox News has been on the cattle mutilation beat for a while.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • The property has been used as a working cattle spread for decades.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • At the episode’s end, many of the Duttons saddled up and headed to The Gather in order to brand some cattle.
    William Earl, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Kasey has shown cattle at the Indiana State Fair and is a 10-year 4-H member.
    Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Yellowstone ranch doesn’t have $1.4 million a month to spend on this cattle move?
    William Earl, Variety, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Growing up in a town in the rural Nevada town of Spring Creek, the 16-year-old had learned how to drive cattle on horseback at the age of 9.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • Look in a wooded area that was recently grazed by a herd of cattle.
    Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 24 Jan. 2023
  • These people, their cattle, their farms — their means of life — have been dealing with drought.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • Cutting as a sport, involves a horse, rider and herd of cattle.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
  • To that end, most farm settlers herd goats, sheep, or cattle over large areas.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • My late father grew up on a cattle ranch in Uruguay, where there are three times as many cows as people.
    Lola Méndez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Rip and Carter are tending to the cattle, while Beth watches her boys enjoy the good cowboy life.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This time around, people in the city centers weren’t living cheek-by-jowl with cattle or sheep.
    R. Alexander Bentley, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Outside, cattle graze across the rolling hills and the voices of herdsmen are a distant soundtrack.
    Nokukhanya Musi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But the bad news extends to cattle, portending bad news for next year's beef prices.
    Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • But the bad news extends to cattle, portending bad news for next year’s beef prices.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The cattle mow down the fields and then the chickens spread out the manure and aerate the soil with their pecking, which speeds up regrowth of the grass, Hamilton said.
    oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023

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