Sentence examples for an ox from inspiring English sources

The phrase "an ox" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a single member of the species Bos taurus, typically in contexts related to farming, agriculture, or animal husbandry.
Example: "The farmer decided to buy an ox to help with plowing the fields."
Alternatives: "a bull" or "a steer".

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Another runs: "An ox... an ox... an ox... Why had she bought me an ox?" In what is probably his most accessible show yet, Key balances his poetry with some lovely languid musings and activities, recruiting, for example, another audience member to pour a can of ale into a champagne flute and hand it to him.

(An ox that steals its son's wife, but an ox nonetheless).

'I'm strong as an ox.

"The guy was an ox.

They said she's an ox.

He's as strong as an ox.

My dad's as healthy as an ox.

Enough blusher to fell an ox.

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One of the legends about him has him orphaned at six months and adopted by an ox-driver, growing into manhood as an ox-driver too, but so handsome and brilliant than a princess falls in love with him.

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