How to Use udder in a Sentence

udder

noun
  • For one thing, they’ve been bred to have longer and wider udders, rather than deep ones.
    Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
  • Sometimes the runts need help getting to a sow’s udder for milk.
    Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
  • For those still stuck at the cow’s udder, though, this resource-saving jug is just the thing.
    Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2010
  • Cow udders have been identified as a hotspot for the virus.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Or does one need to stoop to silicone udders to secure that sweet, sweet free meat?
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 9 July 2019
  • In their garden, the mayor found the couple’s cow, its udders unmilked in days.
    New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • No This funny cow costume is great for a dog with flat ears that can wear the headpiece and who won’t mind the udder attached to the belly strap.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Perform in a cow suit, complete with udder, and feel completely at home?
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
  • And then, one day, the truck arrives, and the babies are packed up, squealing in fright: Their mother is soon left sniffing after them, her udders still full with milk.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • To avoid milk going bad, some babies were held to animals' udders to suckle.
    Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
  • The first person to touch an udder was one of the Shamrock Farms handlers because like any big competition, the Milk Off started with a warm-up.
    Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 12 June 2018
  • Worse, in searing memory, cows with their hooves, udder and even legs burned off still alive who had to be euthanized.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The virus adapted to infect mammals and leapt to cows in late 2023, with high levels of viral particles identified in the milk and udders of sick livestock.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
  • Their eyes are a liquid brown, their noses inquisitive, their udders homely; small children thrill to their moo.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Scientists had replaced the nucleus of an egg cell with the nucleus from a parent cell — in Dolly’s case, an udder cell from a Finn Dorset sheep.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Before milking, a unit extends under the cow and cleans her udder; tubes carry the milk to a refrigerator.
    Peter Landers, WSJ, 6 May 2018
  • In studying possible methods of bird flu transmission, scientists look at where the H5N1 virus is most prevalent in cows — the udders.
    Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 10 May 2024
  • Another remedy for consumption was for the ill person to go to the barn before dawn, lie under a cow and receive the milk directly from the udder.
    Kitty Leshay, Courant Community, 14 June 2017
  • Milking equipment is cleaned but not sterilized between cows, Parker said, so the virus may be transmitted when one cow with the virus in her milk leaves some of it on the machine to be picked up by the next cow's udder.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
  • The goats needed to be milked every 12 hours or their udders would become painfully swollen and possibly infected.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The udder mix-up spilled the bitter truth about the almond milk’s production: it’s being processed in the same facility as cow’s milk, its legen-dairy rival.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
  • Unlike other supermarket staples that can halt the factory line when the market shifts, cows can’t just turn off their udders.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • The rescuers were baffled—until one of them noticed milk dripping from her udders: Karma had recently had a baby calf.
    Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Kennedy Kanagawa, who handles the cow and other puppets, brings out some of the most lifelike and charming expressions, despite Milky White’s face, ribs and udder being made out of cardboard.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 July 2022
  • Gabriel Soto addresses animal agriculture with a painting of a cow whose udders leak an endless stream of milk.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The sick cows, said Petersen, who owns Sunrise Veterinary Service, tended to produce milk that didn’t look quite right, and had mastitis, an inflammation of the udders.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Futuristic Feminist Novel Magda’s breasts swung like the udders of two cows that had full autonomy over their bodies and were free to make the choices that suited them.
    Kira Jane Buxton, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
  • While the cows chow, a robotic arm, similar to the kind that pops quarter panels onto frames in auto factories, swerves into position under the cow’s udder, where lasers guide the gripper toward the teats to clean them.
    Jason Nark, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
  • The technical term for the clouds is mammatus, which is derived from Latin for udder or breast, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
  • Astronaut’s female descendants are prized for their udder quality and the high butterfat content of their milk.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 July 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'udder.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: