How to Use goat in a Sentence

goat

noun
  • In the last inning, a home run can make you the hero, and a strikeout can make you the goat.
  • Scientists were able to confirm the cheese was made using goat’s milk.
    Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Empowering women through goats To be sure, the work comes with challenges.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2024
  • For the first 10 weeks, Steve fed the fawn goat's milk.
    Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • And one of those fans brought a goat along to cheer on the birds.
    Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • From the oxtail to the curried goat to the cow heel soup.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • Of course, Al Johnson's and its roof goats make the list.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2023
  • The sheep -- though not the lambs or the goat -- gained weight at death for a few seconds.
    oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The sea goat isn't scared of commitment and tends to be in it for the long haul.
    Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The breeder was worried about the fate of his 100 goats and five dogs.
    Chris Liakos, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Sedgwick stood up and danced around at the end of the video as she was joined by the Pygmy goat.
    Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Sedgwick stands up and dances around at the end of the video as she is joined by the Pygmy goat.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The court issued a warrant for the search and seizure of the goat on July 8.
    Michele Chandler, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Don’t be afraid to be a student to life again, my sea goats.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
  • How about a little goat milk for the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time)?
    Lindsay Colameo, Allure, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Drop the transfer case into low range and the Ram climbs like a goat.
    Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • GoatSongs And thanks @angiealaska for the screaming goat.
    Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In the end, though, Jones wound up neither the goat nor the hero, but on the wrong side of a 35-29 overtime score.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 17 Oct. 2021
  • That left two doors still unopened, one with a goat and one with a car.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The deputy was able to lure the goat off of a cliff with an apple from her lunchbox, the post said.
    oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Lantz grew up on a goat farm in Norco, 100 miles north of San Diego.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Grover is a satyr, half boy and half goat, disguised as a 12 year old boy.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 May 2022
  • Plaintiff, 9-year-old E.L., and Cedar, her beloved goat.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The couple said a tourist once bought a young goat from them and rented a truck to get it home.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • Each year, the massive goat is constructed in the same spot.
    Caleigh Alleyne, Country Living, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Whoever came up with that idea was the wrong kind of goat.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The goat that Kaz picked up does, however, prove to come in handy.
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Asking Krall to make sense of this is like asking a fish to be a goat.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Before the dogs arrived, the farm lost 38 sheep — since then, just one sheep and one goat.
    Jill Barth, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At the completion of the academic year, the school served rice and goat.
    E. C. Osondu, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021

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