The word "ox" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when talking about a large, domesticated bovine (i.e. a cow). For example, "The farmer used the ox to pull the plow through the field."
Its six new classrooms and its new latrines, opened two years ago amid great fanfare including a roasted ox and the presence of many of the most important local dignitaries, stilled anxieties that the project was focusing too much on "software" – training and education – and not enough on the "hardware", such as buildings.
I have an eight-year-old son, and he's healthy as an ox.
To be able to repay her loan and keep some beans to feed her family she had to sell an ox.
He was 73 then; but he was compact, strong as an ox, and probably touched with magic power from all the emeralds he had handled.He was lucky, too, and knew it.
The pickup went much faster than an ox wagon, except in the traffic jam outside Williston, which looked like a long, motionless steel snake festooned with lights.
Mr Gutiérrez, as heavy-set as an ox, comes from a family that made a fortune on Mexico City's rubbish tips.
The pretty avenue that leads to the Villa dei Mysteri outside the walls was, however, comparatively empty, and you could easily picture it with togaed citizens and solid-wheeled ox-carts going up and down.
Sometimes the walkers found themselves caught up in long lines of refugees, footsore like them, trudging alongside ox-carts and bicycles piled high with mattresses and pans and live chickens.
In exile in Zambia and Britain its leaders spoke English.For many Afrikaners, the descendants of voortrekkers, the pioneers whose ox-drawn wagons headed northward from the Cape into Africa's hinterland, the loss is heartbreaking.
(The poor old musk-ox actually did go extinct in North America until money from W.K. Kellogg, the cereal baron, helped fetch some more from Greenland in 1930).In a few years the dozens of wood bison at the park together with some from Canada to diversify the gene pool will be released into the Alaskan wild, thus becoming the first wood bison to roam America in 100 years.
Elk, moose, caribou and, yes, musk-ox lounge in the tall grasses against a glorious mountainous backdrop.
