How to Use ox in a Sentence

ox

noun

• Then there’s the tale of the nun who was crushed by an ox on the working farm.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
• His ox, Babe, weighed 5 tons and had the strength of nine horses.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2022
• But an ox, harnessed to a plow, could do the same amount of work in a fraction of the time.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
• The cucumber stands in for the ox, which stands in for the human: a life for a life for a life.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 28 Nov. 2022
• He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox.
  — Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2019
• Kylin is a fantasy beast comprised of the body of a deer, tail of an ox, feet of a horse and scales of a fish.
  — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
• Much of the lumber came by ox-cart from Jefferson, in East Texas.
  — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
• In decades past, this iconic Jamaican dish was once prepared with the tail of an ox.
  — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
• At one beef party, an ox was slaughtered and the video was shared online.
  — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• Enter Babe, who's not your usual blue ox, if there is such a thing.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• As usual, parties, fetes and ox roasts were held across the country.
  — Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022
• Woods is strong as an ox and won’t get thrown to the ground the way some of his nose tackle predecessors were.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2017
• Which raises the question: HOW, exactly, did the ox and lamb keep time?
  — Dave Barry, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
• Always in great shape, strong as an ox and a really good dude.
  — Dallas News, 29 July 2022
• When dinner was served (a hearty ox and vegetable stew), the topic switched to polar bears.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2015
• Daeho also serves beef and ox bone soups and bibimbap in stone pots.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
• But note, there’s no stable mentioned or ox or ass mooning over the child.
  — Rick Hamlin and Bloomberg, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
• Researchers first sifted the amino acid taurine from a sample of ox bile in 1827.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
• Tidbit: Every branch has an ox yoke and a horseshoe over the door and a traffic light over the restrooms.
  — Tom Sietsema, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• On one of their trips, Shrem recalled, the two ventured off a trail and Hedaya had a close encounter with an ox.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• The visit takes a bizarre turn when Amat starts having visions of a massive blood-red ox in the house.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
• Next come the fried ox testicles, followed by the pours and pours of homemade grappa.
  — Eliot Stein, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
• The overconfident tiger was sure to arrive first but arrived third after the rat and the ox.
  — Marilisa Barbieri, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Don't just watch your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fall down in the road and do nothing about it.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 June 2022
• But Jesus responds with do not all of you on the Sabbath lead an ox or donkey to water?
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2019
• Elk, wolves, reindeer, or musk oxen eat the dead grass underneath the snow by pushing the snow away with their horns, snouts, or hooves.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2017
• Cow and the various permutations of cow and ox and bull gets into a whole thing.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• On October 29, Netanyahu invoked the Amalek, a Biblical term that conjures an evil enemy that is to be destroyed down to the last ox and sheep.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
• Zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024