Sentence examples for as a ewe from inspiring English sources

Water-filled gloves, heavy as a ewe's udder, hang from trees.

An adult female sheep is referred to as a ewe, an intact male as a ram or occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a younger sheep as a lamb.

In the heady days of the revolution he wrote a book, maybe a tract would be a better description, entitled The Ghana Revolution, in which he appeared to be arguing the case for Anlo hegemony, leading to this most cosmopolitan man being seen as an Ewe chauvinist.

In this study, fertility was defined as the ability of a ewe to become pregnant in a given mating period.

Use "A" when eu or "e" makes the same sound as y: a European trip, a ewe lamb.

For twins, the reduced interindividual variance associated with being nested within a ewe was analyzed as a general linear mixed model, with the ewe included as a random effect (Genstat 15; VSN International, Hemel Hempstead, UK).

A ewe that is mated as a juvenile (producing a lamb at 1 year of age) will produce an average of only 0.6 lambs to weaning, compared to an average of 1.2 lambs in adult ewes.

A ewe, hugely swollen on each side, watched as we entered a field where lambing was in progress.

The Lake District shepherd James Rebanks is as passionately attached to the landscape that surrounds his Matterdale farm as any ewe, or "yow" as they are called, and her lamb.

To evaluate the effects of the forage type fed to the ewe on milk fatty acid content and gene expression in the mammary gland, the analyses were performed with a General Linear Model (GLM), in which the diet of the ewe was included as a fixed effect and the ewe body weight at lambing was included as a covariable, due to its possible relevance on the studied parameters during lactation [ 8].

In fact, tissue concentrations were generally as high, or higher, in lambs as in ewes, a finding consistent with the observation that tissue accumulation of these compounds is not merely a function of the duration of exposure.